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I am concerned with peace in its several dimensions: inner peace, social peace, environmental peace and military peace. This paper addresses the global responsibilities of mathematicians and mathematics educators in the quest for peace. It is observed that the evolution of mathematics is intimately related to the evolution of Western society, hence mathematics cannot be dissociated of human behavior. After some reflections on the specifity of the human species and the production of knowledge, I claim a symbiotic relation between human search of ways of explaining and coping with the environment and the development of mathematics. This leads to a broader approach to the history and padagogy of mathematics and to some hints for the subor dination of mathematics development to a global ethics, which incorporates the goal of peace in its multiple dimensions.
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Mein Anliegen ist Frieden in seinen verschiedenen Dimensionen innerer Frieden, sozialer Frieden, ökologischer Frieden und militärischer Frieden. Der Beitrag handelt von der globalen Verantwortung von mathematikern und Mathematikdi daktikern im Streben nach Frieden Beobachtungen zeigen, daß die Entwicklung der Mathematik eng mit der Entwicklung der westlichen Gesellschaft verbunden ist, Mathematik kann also nicht vom menschlichen Verhalten abgetrennt werden Nach einigen Überlegungen über das Besondere der menschlichen Spezies behaupte ich, daß es eine symbiotische Beziehung zwischen der menschlichen Suche nach Wegen, die Umwelt zu erklären, mit ihr umzugehen, und der Entwicklung der Mathematik gibt. Dies führt zu einem breiteren Zugang zur Geschichte und zur Pädagogik der Mathematik sowie zu einigen Hinweisen, wie die Entwicklung der Mathematik einer globalen Ethik unterworfen werden kann, die den Frieden in seinen verschiedenen Dimensionen als Ziel miteinschließt.
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