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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... called an international symposium, and its theme was cross-cultural communication. The president of the association, Professor Yue Daiyun at Beijing University, asked me to present a paper and to cochair the keynote panel with her. I ...
... called American Humanism or the New Humanism. A scholarsage with a deep interest in Eastern thought, Babbitt strongly influenced many Asian students, some of whom became prominent in their own countries. Chinese students of his ...
... called humanism at all, detaches itself from concrete, historical life. It becomes strongly dis- inclined to accommodate human individuality. To people who see potential value in personal uniqueness as such and in the sometimes ...
... called eudaimonia (happiness)—the individual needs to discipline his appetites of the moment, even try to extinguish some of them, with a view to his own enduring good. By happiness was meant not a collection of pleasures, but a special ...
... called humane wisdom. A better life, they argue, depends on man's applying science and rationality, as they define them, to the problems of life. Improving human existence is a matter of restructuring society in accordance with ...
Inhalt
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Chapter Five | 36 |
Chapter | 46 |
Chapter Seven | 60 |
Chapter Nine | 99 |
Chapter | 118 |
Appendix | 135 |
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