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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... notions of universality and am unwilling to adopt the more abstract or amorphous universalism that is fashionable in some circles today, I think it is possible to embrace the notion of universality in reconstituted form. But so is there ...
... notion of universality and a related disdain for particularity. The desire in some quarters for a homogeneous global moral regime is shown to represent a serious and dangerous misunderstanding of universality. The remaining chapters ...
... notion means for how 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 ...
... with meaninglessness. Rejecting the notion of higher order or meaning, postmodernists celebrate diversity and advocate tolerance for differences among individuals Peace as the Union of Universality and Particularity 7.
... notion of God as “wholly other,” and the intellectual historian Eric Voegelin, with his Platonic notion of radical transcen- dence. Postmodernist multiculturalism, in contrast, calls attention to the pervasiveness and inevitability of ...
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Chapter Five | 36 |
Chapter | 46 |
Chapter Seven | 60 |
Chapter Nine | 99 |
Chapter | 118 |
Appendix | 135 |
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