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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... higher humanity of mankind. Genuine understanding and harmony among individuals and peoples involve the dialectic coexistence, the synthesis, of particularity and universality. Acknowledgments While preparing this book I incurred some ...
... higher potential of life, to foster characteristics seen as being the best and noblest as well as a source of social cohesion and happiness. As a label for the endeavor to cultivate what is highest in man we might adopt the old word ...
... higher potential of particular human beings, then it would seem to be badly served by a philosophy that belittles particularity and attaches no importance to human individuality as such. If, as in Platonic philosophy, only pure ...
... higher potential. Diversity need not be a threat to unity; it can, as unified by humanistic discipline, enrich and enhance the common. This idea has vast implications—not merely for scholars concerned about philosophical precision ...
... higher human life. Though radically incompatible with some manifestations of particularity, universality is potentially consonant with other manifestations. It can blend with and shape diversity, making diversity the medium for its own ...
Inhalt
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Chapter Five | 36 |
Chapter | 46 |
Chapter Seven | 60 |
Chapter Nine | 99 |
Chapter | 118 |
Appendix | 135 |
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