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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... kind may facilitate the absorption of particular points along the way. The book develops a new approach to the problem of universality and particularity, with special emphasis on how it relates to unity and diversity among individuals ...
... kind of thinking. Another point of view that is found unacceptable here is abstract universalism, which sees history and particularity as such as meaningless and even degrading. Though Plato's philosophy has an- other side, he gave this ...
... kind of universalistic humanism must appear cold, inflexible, unimaginative, or distant. In the West, universalism of this kind comes in many forms, including Jacobin rights of man, neo-Thomist moral rationalism, and ahistorical natural ...
... kind of life must frequently say no to pleasures and advantages of the moment, namely those that are inimical to a more deeply satisfying existence. Once attained, the life of happiness is its own reward. Aristotle emphasized the need ...
... kind of working on self that in time will build real meaning and worth into human existence. Whether the aim has been achieving the happiness and nobility of a worldly, civilized life of the type that Aristotle advocates, or achieving ...
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Chapter Five | 36 |
Chapter | 46 |
Chapter Seven | 60 |
Chapter Nine | 99 |
Chapter | 118 |
Appendix | 135 |
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