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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... creatively applied to new circumstances. Chapter 5 explores further the ethical aspect of the common life of mankind. It argues for cosmopolitan breadth and flexibility in how ethical universality is understood. Chapters 6 and 7 deal ...
... creativity and mere idiosyncrasy. Within this outlook, the word humanism is ultimately meaningless, as is the word culture. Because it rejects every notion of universality, postmodernist multiculturalism excludes the possibility of a ...
... creativity affirm the unity by ordering and dignifying the diversity and affirm the diversity by varying and enriching the unity. The union of universality and partic- ularity does not belong only to some special sphere beyond ordinary ...
... creativity, a heritage whose greatest achievements need to be understood anew by each generation and made relevant to new circumstances. The Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce (1866– 1952), one of the truly great minds of the twentieth ...
... creativity. In this way, they make the best of the past genuinely their own and thereby make it an inspiring force in the here and now. The absorption of the heritage enriches the present, ultimately because it helps capture ...
Inhalt
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11 | |
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26 | |
Chapter Five | 36 |
Chapter | 46 |
Chapter Seven | 60 |
Chapter Nine | 99 |
Chapter | 118 |
Appendix | 135 |
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