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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... meaning of their own; man should try as far as possible to escape from whatever is particular and changing to what is universal and unchanging. Universality—whose different forms were the good, the true, and the beautiful—was ahis ...
... meaning of life—what the Greeks called eudaimonia (happiness)—the individual needs to discipline his appetites of the moment, even try to extinguish some of them, with a view to his own enduring good. By happiness was meant not a ...
... 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 the special peace of otherworldliness and saintliness ...
... meaning and practical efficacy only as incarnated in a myriad of different ways. Moral and other customs must differ in specifics according to time and place, but the variety can be the diversification. 2. Richard Rorty, Consequences of ...
... meaning and worth and must not be frittered away or permitted to turn barbarous. Universality shows itself in the world, then, not by drawing atten- tion away from or by abolishing the particular, but by particularizing itself. To be ...
Inhalt
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Chapter Five | 36 |
Chapter | 46 |
Chapter Seven | 60 |
Chapter Nine | 99 |
Chapter | 118 |
Appendix | 135 |
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