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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... individuals require that moral and cultural nihilism and relativism, as ordinarily understood, be overcome. Though I have criticisms of most traditional notions of universality and am unwilling to adopt the more abstract or amorphous ...
... individuals within the same culture. At the same time, both my lectures and the response to them illustrated that our common humanity cannot be discussed except in the accents of particular individuals and peoples. Deep attachment to a ...
... 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 humanizing effort. Here we come to the core of the thesis of this ...
... individuals and peoples. Our humanity is stimulated and deepened by the challenge of diversity. In a world of moral, aesthetic, and intellectual homogeneity, our humanity would shrivel. Given the scope and complexity of the ...
... individuals, peoples, and civilizations might meet on a common human ground. One way to make a philosophical position clear is to contrast it with what it is not. This book makes its case partly by criticizing deficient approaches to ...
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Chapter Five | 36 |
Chapter | 46 |
Chapter Seven | 60 |
Chapter Nine | 99 |
Chapter | 118 |
Appendix | 135 |
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