A Common Human Ground: Universality and Particularity in a Multicultural WorldUniversity of Missouri Press, 07.11.2003 - 168 Seiten The 21st century is rife with tensions and conflict among cultures, peoples, and persons. In this thought-provoking book, Claes G. Ryn explores the great danger of turbulence and war and propounds a strongly argued thesis about what can make peaceful relations possible. |
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... Christianity to Sufi philosophy, Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Islam. The obstacles to realizing the values of goodness, truth, and beauty and to achieving peaceful relations among individuals and groups are ubiquitous ...
... Christianity has regarded man's cleft will, his often desiring what is contrary to his own higher good, as the crux of human life. Though the individual should always strive to contain his selfish and shortsighted inclinations and try ...
... Christianity, he sees in man no lower inclinations, no original sin. Man is born good, and his nature remains good. Man as he once existed in his primitive state, before the appearance of society, was a pure, simple, peaceful, happy ...
... Christianity, such as the belief that man is utterly dependent on divine grace for his own salvation, which gained new strength in the Protestant Reformation, became in time for many an excuse not to place any sustained and heavy ...
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Inhalt
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Chapter Five | 36 |
Chapter | 46 |
Chapter Seven | 60 |
Chapter Nine | 99 |
Chapter | 118 |
Appendix | 135 |
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