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The International Journal of the Royal Society of Thailand
Volume XIII – 2021

From the editor

The editor takes great pleasure in presenting to the readers of this issue of

the IJRSTh the main theme “Religion, Ethics and Sciences.” The IJRSTh 2021 presents
five articles on the theme.

We begin with the honourary remarks by H.E. Georg Schmidt, the Ambassador
of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bangkok, Responsibility of Religious Com-

munities for Peace – A Role of Diplomacy? (Friedensverantwortung von Religions-
gemeinschaften – eine Rolle für die Diplomatie?). The article discusses about the
efforts of Germany’s Diplomacy to reach out to various religious leaders in its efforts
of conflict resolution.

To make examples of East-West Interaction from literature in this respect, Pornsan

Watanangura, Fellow, The Royal Society of Thailand, Academy of Arts, presents her
critical view on the complex and complicated moral question in the parable of
Bertolt Brecht, The Good Person of Szuan (Der gute Mensch von Sezuan): Anti-Capitalist,
Anti-buddhist? : “How could someone with his intention to be decent then go on

to become wicked.” With the contradiction of the moral concept of morality, the
drama is comparatively discussed according to Buddhist teaching as a new answer
for an intercultural mediation for literature.

Looking back at Nalanda Monastery, one of the most important and advanced
University in ancient India since the fifth century, until it was finally destroyed by

Muslim invaders in the thirteenth century, Soraj Hongladarom, Department of
Philosophy and Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Faculty of Arts, Chula-
longkorn University, portrays what happened at Nalanda Monastery as a source of

inspiration for the development of Thai universities and research institutions.

Heinrich Detering, Seminar for German Philology at the University of Göt-
tingen, scrutinizes the latest research on Thomas Mann’s relationship to religion,
Unitarianism as Applied Christianity” – Thomas Mann and the Unitarian Church
in the USA. Thomas Mann, one of the most famous German authors and a 1929

Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, expressed his late and lasting embrace of the

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