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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... assume that despite the differences among peoples and individuals all human beings are, deep down, the same and really only waiting to embrace. Not all of the mentioned formulas lack utility, and they are advanced with varying degrees ...
... assumed that the validity of this claim could be confirmed only by one willing to undertake the kind of actions entailed by that statement. Protestant Christianity puts particular stress on the need for faith, but all of Christianity ...
... intellectuals today. It is not philosophically respectable simply to assume the validity of notions of human nature and society that happen to be fashionable at the moment. The philosophical mind is acutely aware 18 A Common Human Ground.
... assumed that a culture of enlightenment of the sort that took hold in the eighteenth century will eventually reconstitute all societies on an allegedly rational basis. According to this view, older moral and religious beliefs are forms ...
... assume that desirable human traits do not have to be deliberately fostered but will develop naturally provided that ... assumes about man's moral condition. According to that older view, what is necessary for the individual and society ...
Inhalt
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Chapter Five | 36 |
Chapter | 46 |
Chapter Seven | 60 |
Chapter Nine | 99 |
Chapter | 118 |
Appendix | 135 |
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