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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... give a plenary address at the triennial meeting of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association in Nanjing. One of China's most respected publishers, San Lian, whose international repertoire is quite wide and growing, recently brought ...
... give final form to the idea that whenever the values of goodness, truth, or beauty are realized, universality and particularity are mutually implicated in, and greatly in need of, each other. The book ends by exploring uniqueness as ...
... give short shrift to a subject that may in fact be far more important, one that requires greater depth and subtlety of mind and that is also not fashionable: the moral and cultural preconditions of peace. Whatever the importance of ...
... gives us not only more examples of the diversity of mankind but indications of substantial transhistorical and transcultural commonalities. Attending to a greater body of evidence than is typically done today reveals persistent moral ...
... give. Babbitt's view is that “life does not give here an element of oneness and there an element of change. It gives a oneness that is always changing. The oneness and the change are inseparable.”1 How we regard the relationship between ...
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Chapter Five | 36 |
Chapter | 46 |
Chapter Seven | 60 |
Chapter Nine | 99 |
Chapter | 118 |
Appendix | 135 |
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