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. FOR A NEW PARADIGM: AR WO LD BASED ON CARE Anthology of texts by Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo FUNDAÇÃO CUIDAR O FUTURO . Antónia Coutinho, Fátima Grácio, Noémia Jorge, Paula Borges Santos, Regina Tavares da Silva (Org.) FOR A NEW PARADIGM: A WORLD BASED ON CARE Anthology of texts by Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo Preface by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa Afterword by Maria João Seixas FUNDAÇÃO CUIDAR O FUTURO . Introductory note: The present Anthology of texts by Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo: “For a new paradigm: a world based on care – Anthology of texts by Maria De Lourdes Pintasilgo" has been published in Portugal by Fundação Cuidar o Futuro, (the Caring for the Future Foundation) in the year 2012. The printed version does include texts in Portuguese, French and English. In the interest of a wider audience, the texts of the author, initially written in Portuguese, French and English, are now on line and available in English. The Foreword and Afterward have remained in Portuguese Title: For a new paradigm: a world based on care – anthology of texts by Maria De Lourdes Pintasilgo Translation by Traductanet ISBN: 978-989-54161-8-9 Published by: Fundação Cuidar o Futuro Design and layout by: Guide – Artes gráficas, Lda. Title of the printed version: “Para um novo paradigma: um mundo assente no cuidado. Antologia de textos de Maria De Lourdes Pintasilgo”, with Preface by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Afterword by Maria João Seixas. Original version compiled by: Antónia Coutinho, Fátima Grácio, Noémia Jorge, Paula Borges Santos, Regina Tavares da Silva. Edition: Edições Afrontamento Lda. janeiro de 2012 . Contents 5 List of acronyms 7 Introductory note 9 Preface, by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa 19 WOMEN / EQUALITY / PARITY DEMOCRACY 21 Emergence of the feminine and democratisation of the political 29 The political crisis: an opening for women 39 Political culture and the culture of women 51 Visioning the future 61 Equality – identity 69 Women become visible 73 Parity democracy: a new intelligent approach to social relations? 83 Women, citizenship and an active society 93 Women and men in power 105 Caring for the future 117 Female leadership and world governability 125 DEMOCRACY, CITIZENSHIP, HUMAN RIGHTS 127 The new rights: the emergence of identity 139 International movement towards democracy 149 Governance and human rights 157 Clashes of power 165 Inventing democracy 171 Ethics, citizenship and politics . 183 DEVELOPMENT, POPULATION AND QUALITY OF LIFE 185 With deepest gratitude 191 On technology 199 The great challenge of the Rio Conference 203 The problem of the population: at the crossroads of complexity 209 Unemployment, a threat to a human society 217 «Burst with indignation against poverty!» 227 An improved quality of life: statement by the independent commission for population and quality of life 241 Bioethics and developing countries 249 World summit for social development 253 Choices in reproduction 259 From numbers to quality of life 263 On the threshold of the third millennium 269 The revolt of nature 277 Poverty and economic and social rights 283 Priorities of development in Portugal 291 EDUCATION AND CULTURE, VALUES, RELIGION, ETHICS 293 The sacred and politics 303 Elements for a women’s spirituality 317 Motivations and values in today’s society 329 The importance of religious values in the construction of Europe 337 Changing values in a world in transition 349 Global ethics in a world of global problems 361 The cultural system as it deals with the society of today 369 To a creative participation 373 Paths for a cultural democracy 377 Afterword, by Maria João Seixas 4 . LIST OF acrONYMS BBC – British Broadcasting Corporation CEWR – Commission for Equality and Women’s Rights CNN – Cable News Network DEPS – Department of Health Planning and Studies DG5 – Directorate General Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities EC – European Commission EEC – European Economic Community ECOSOC – Economic and Social Council EP – European Parliament EU – European Union FAO – Food and Agriculture Organization GA – General Assembly GNP – Gross National Product GATT – General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GNP – Gross National Product HIV – Human Immunodeficiency Virus ICCPR – International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ICESCR – International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ICPD – International Conference on Population and Development ICSW – International Council on Social Welfare ILO – International Labour Office / International Labour Organisation IMF – International Monetary Fund ISDA – Independent Social Democratic Association LDC – Less Developed Countries NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organisation NCELS – National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences NGOs – Non Governmental Organisations NICs – Newly Industrialised Countries ODA – Official Development Assistance OECD – Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development RFA – Federal Republic of Germany SAP – Structural Adjustment Programme SIGI – Sisterhood is Global Institute 5 . UK – United Kingdom UN – United Nations UNCED – United Nations Conference on Environment and Development UNDP – United Nations Development Programme UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation US – United States USA – United States of America WHO – World Health Organisation 6 . INTRODUCTORY NOTE T he Cuidar O Futuro (Caring for the Future) Foundation houses the personal archive of Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, its founder. Going as far back as the 1950s, it brings together documents illustrating the life journey of a remarkable woman, along with texts (and different versions of the same text) in the form of presentations, lectures, speeches and articles on the most varied of subjects given or published at different times and in different contexts in Portugal and abroad. T he originality and pioneering thinking expressed in these writings, the wide-ranging multidisciplinarity, the timeliness ingrained in many of its ideas and the boldness of the points of view defended therein led the Foundation to want to give them greater visibility and make them available to the public. This is how this anthology was born. Moreover it embodies a desire expressed by Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo herself before she died. Having established a timeframe, which consisted in giving priority to texts produced since the 1990s, our interest was also in preserving the broadness of theme which the archi- val texts reveal through the sheer range of topics covered, the diversity of contexts in which they were presented and circulated and the variety of languages used. From this perspective, and taking into account the interest of making different reading paths possible, we thought it useful to divide the texts into four main subject groups: Women, Equality, Parity Democracy; Democracy, Citizenship, Human Rights; Development, Population and Quality of Life; Education and Culture, Values, Religion, Ethics. When there was more than one version of the same text, we selected the most com- plete one – also giving preference to published versions (therefore revised by the author), when available. A thank you, on behalf of the Cuidar o Futuro Foundation to all the entities involved. The selected versions, here translated into English, are in Portuguese, French and English – showing the international reach of Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo’s thoughts and actions in all its linguistic diversity. In spite of a desire to be as true as possible to the original, we decided to open them up to common abbreviations and acronyms and to standardise emphatic forms by using italics. In the selected texts we find a diverse range of writing styles – sometimes colloquial, sometimes formal, sometimes poetic and in other cases explanatory and didactic. There are occasionally unidentified quotations, as well as concepts and examples that reappear in a number of texts. Nothing has been changed, as we accept that Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo’s 7 . profile was not that of a conventional academic. Far beyond an academic style, what matters is the potency of ideas that constitute the author’s persistent themes. We would like to point out how happy we were to do this work and we hope that this selection will effectively contribute to the consolidation of this new paradigm, a world based on care. In any case, there is still a lot of work to be done to the same end – and certainly much that can still be done to develop further the thinking of Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo and on the many unpublished texts in the archives of the Cuidar o Futuro Foundation. Cuidar o Futuro Foundation Antónia Coutinho Fátima Grácio Noémia Jorge Regina Tavares da Silva 8 . Preface, BY MarcelO REBELO DE SOUsa PREFÁCIO Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo A palavra como arma Como abstrair de uma longa amizade ao percorrer os textos correspondentes aos últimos anos da intensa vida de Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo? Como esquecer o modo como essa amizade teve em meus Pais – no final dos anos 60 e início dos anos 70 – protagonistas cimeiros, e permaneceria como seu legado, insensível às disparidades de ideias e divergências de percursos? Impossível. Por isso, esta introdução deve ser encimada por uma advertência prévia: quem a escreve foi, muitas vezes, crítico ou mesmo adversário da autora das prosas ora recolhidas, mas nunca deixou que essas dissonâncias atingissem a amizade que os uniu durante mais de trinta anos. Compreender a presente compilação requer duas contextualizações. Uma, respeitante ao tempo. Outra, atinente à pessoa. O tempo em que se formou