A common human ground : universality and particularity in a multicultural world

A common human ground : universality and particularity in a multicultural world /

"In A Common Human Ground, Claes Ryn explores the nature of this problem and sets forth a theory about what is necessary for peaceful relations to be possible." "One Western philosophical tradition, for which Plato set the pattern, maintains that the only way to genuine unity is for h...

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Main Author: Ryn, Claes G., 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2003
Subjects:
Philosophical anthropology.
Universals (Philosophy)
Ethnic relations.
philosophical anthropology.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Peace as the union of universality and particularity
  • Moral and cultural preconditions of harmony
  • A cosmopolitan basis for peace
  • The living past
  • A common ethical center
  • Dubious conceptions of unity
  • The attack on history
  • Value-centered historicism
  • The concrete as normative
  • The unique expression of the universal.

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