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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... Peace 20 Chapter Four The Living Past 26 Chapter Five A Common Ethical Center 36 Chapter Six Dubious Conceptions of Unity 46 Chapter Seven The Attack on History 60 Chapter Eight Value-Centered Historicism 79 Chapter Nine The Concrete as v.
... Living Philosophers at Southern Illinois University, who is a refreshingly free but also philosophically disciplined spirit, gave me suggestions for how I might revise the book for this English edition. Even when I did not follow his ...
... 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 thesis of the book is that in 1 Introduction.
... living character of human existence and, most especially, the possibility of synthesis of particularity and universality. These concluding chapters criticize what the book terms the idiosyncratic society and argue for what it calls the ...
... living responsibly and nobly, as befits a truly human being. The person aspiring to that 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 ...
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Chapter Five | 36 |
Chapter | 46 |
Chapter Seven | 60 |
Chapter Nine | 99 |
Chapter | 118 |
Appendix | 135 |
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