Mother News Editorial Sep-2015

Dear Friends

    Fraternity means a structured society of men and women nested in an ambience of companionship
and brotherhood for the intellectual, physical, moral, religious, and social development. It implies all can mutually associate themselves for the beneficial purpose of the society.

    Human life is interrelated and interdependent; hence it is essential for human life. Furthermore, these are the ways and credulous means through which we can build a just society which is full of peace, solidarity and fraternity. The family is the wellspring of all fraternity, and as such it is the foundation and the first pathway for the blossom of peace, since, by its vocation, it is meant to spread

its love to the world around it.

    Fraternities can be organized from any purposes, including education, work skills, ethics, ethnicity,

religion, politics, charity, chivalry, personal conduct, asceticism, service, arts, etc. It may also be for explicit goal of mutual support in his/her endeavour. Epicureans valued fraternity very highly, it was

a form of friendship, the product of shared experience, and therefore an interpersonal relationship that

could live only in real communities. But, for Aristotle, it is based on the equivalent relationships among the absent ideas that inform things, and those characteristics we share with others and thrive within our communities, and those where the members cannot know each other, but they can recognize each other through the features they have in common. A common cultural background would make us co-national, being the same sex would makes us fellow men or women, sharing a certain age range would make us part of the youth, 'adults or the 'elderly' etc. The understanding of fraternity will determine whether we see it as the result of relationships among the common man in the society.

    Hisalmar Branting says 'fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature’. The goal of the European Union is to form a region of freedom and justice combined with fraternity and equality. The ideal of fraternity is friendship, peace, and universal understanding. Of late, we could see that lot of refugees throng to the European Union, where they get accommodated. This fraternity and friendship leads to prevail peace and tranquillity in the universe and bring a sense

of community. The sense of community connects oneself in a sense of affinity, which strengthens community bonds, we need to find a way to connect with others, establish a feeling of connectedness.

This connectedness emanates because of the same neighbourhood, or local region, or one can find with common personal interests.

    The principles of French Revolution is liberty, equality and fraternity. We see now in the world  very kind of gun culture, terror, which ravaged the peacefulness and tranquillity in the nations. We could hear the sound of bombs and guns in various parts of the world. This is because of lack of friendship and fraternity among fellow citizens. In the name of religion wars are fought which ultimately result in human disaster.

    Fraternity helps us live in solidarity against inequality and poverty that undermine the social fabric,

to take care of every person, especially the weakest, and most defenceless, as well to love him or her, as oneself. Let everyone choose the pathway of fraternity to humanise the face of the world, a world that is constantly growing more interdependent, which serves to defeat the spread of global indifferences. Fraternity should spread its head in all speres of life including economy, finance, civil society, politics, research, judiciary, development, public and cultural institutions. It is the essential quality for all human beings. It is impossible to build a just society and lasting peace without fraternity.

Let us all build a society of good will and oneness to have a better world.

Regards
Dr. G. K. Dhas
Editor
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