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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... creates a superficial com- monality across borders, but it does not elicit among discerning elites the respect that might forge ties of lasting friendship. Cultures coming into closer contact while displaying their least-admirable ...
... create a better world. One has to wonder if these man-made disasters were not in large part due to the slipping of traditional moral restraints. Postmodernism has produced a partial critique of the intellectual currents of the last two ...
... create independence from the past. Though deeply indebted to the exemplars of a tradition, a creative individual, Croce writes, “works afresh from his own wits and does not cling to a model,. 3. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the ...
... create new opportunities for the darker side of human nature to assert itself. For example, abandoning traditional restraints on human conduct and trusting in the goodness of man may unleash egotism and cruelty. Nor would harmony be ...
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Chapter Five | 36 |
Chapter | 46 |
Chapter Seven | 60 |
Chapter Nine | 99 |
Chapter | 118 |
Appendix | 135 |
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