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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... possible to embrace the notion of universality in reconstituted form. But so is there a need for a substantially revised understanding of particularity. To cultivate personal, national, or cultural distinctiveness need not mean to ...
... possible for culturally diverse peoples and individuals to live peacefully together? Cultural diversity there has always been, but today new forms of communication and greater opportunities of migration are bringing people of very ...
... 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- torical and was threatened and obscured by the ...
... possible for diverse nations and groups to have peaceful, indeed, morally and culturally enriching, relations. Keeping that purpose in mind will protect us from an overly technical approach to the fundamental philosophical issue. Moral ...
... possible by moral will. Universality in general can be seen as the power that orders the diversity of groups, individuals, and desires so as to make them part of the higher human life. Though radically incompatible with some ...
Inhalt
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Chapter Five | 36 |
Chapter | 46 |
Chapter Seven | 60 |
Chapter Nine | 99 |
Chapter | 118 |
Appendix | 135 |
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