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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... less rigid, influential, and intrusive than it once was. That ideas like mine would be tolerated in China and welcomed among leading scholars is one indication among many that Chinese society is slowly shedding its totalitarian ways. I ...
... less than a contradiction in terms is a living human reality. This thesis has direct and wide-ranging implications for how we think and behave as individuals and societies, domestically and internationally. The seemingly paradoxical ...
... less at individuals than at broad general trends. The book's argument does not depend on getting each mentioned thinker just right. What follows is a large argument with broad implications that is set forth rather concisely, and it ...
... less attention than proposals for introducing technology and manipulating political and economic institutions is a sign that our societies are not now well 5. Chapter. One. Chapter Peace as the Union of Universality and Particularity.
... less-commendable desires. Progress requires protracted exertions. To the extent that a people falls short of what is best in its own culture, its members will exhibit such examples of self-indulgence as greed and intolerance. This will ...
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Chapter Five | 36 |
Chapter | 46 |
Chapter Seven | 60 |
Chapter Nine | 99 |
Chapter | 118 |
Appendix | 135 |
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