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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... action makes human beings indulge a seemingly unlimited capacity for wishful thinking. Many in the West and elsewhere trust in scientific progress and general enlightenment to reduce the danger of conflict, but we need only look to the ...
... action. The East offers many examples of a very similar outlook. In Buddhism, especially that of the Hinayana variety, the right Way is the diligent working on or against self to extinguish needless worldly desire. 14 A Common Human Ground.
... action. The new measure of goodness is tearful empathy—“pity.” No longer is moral virtue thought to result from sometimes discomforting self-scrutiny and a diligent working on self. Since man is by nature good, there is no need for him ...
... action, the particular poem, the particular idea. It does not belong to a transcendent sphere lacking all concreteness; such a sphere would be empty and without human interest. In so far as a culture's finest achievements embody ...
... action. As Croce says, “Historical science and culture in all its detailed elaboration exists for the purpose of maintaining and developing the active and civilized life of human society.”2 Each people has less than admirable traits and ...
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Chapter Five | 36 |
Chapter | 46 |
Chapter Seven | 60 |
Chapter Nine | 99 |
Chapter | 118 |
Appendix | 135 |
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