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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... important but neglected and insufficiently understood insights of modernity. The lectures and the book apply the results of these philosophical investigations to questions of globalization and multiculturalism. My work over the years ...
... important to nourish and protect what is properly distinctive to individuals, peoples, and cultures. To do so is fully compatible with cultivating a common hu- manity. In fact, the two can be shown to be different aspects of the same ...
... important sense the truly common human ground is discovered through the differences among individuals and peoples. Our humanity is stimulated and deepened by the challenge of diversity. In a world of moral, aesthetic, and intellectual ...
... 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 other factors, attempts to avoid conflict among peoples and ...
... importance to human individuality as such. If, as in Platonic philosophy, only pure universality has value, distinctive traits of personality are of no interest, are even detrimental to the higher life. The standard for elevating ...
Inhalt
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Chapter Five | 36 |
Chapter | 46 |
Chapter Seven | 60 |
Chapter Nine | 99 |
Chapter | 118 |
Appendix | 135 |
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