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Beyond modernity : the recovery of person and community in global times : lectures in China and Vietnam / by George F. McLean.

Title
Beyond modernity : the recovery of person and community in global times : lectures in China and Vietnam / by George F. McLean.
Author
McLean, George F.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2010.

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Description
vi, 284 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Cultural heritage and contemporary change. Series I, Culture and values ; v. 37
Uniform Title
Cultural heritage and contemporary change. Series I, Culture and values ; v. 37.
Subject
  • Agent (Philosophy)
  • Civilization, Modern
  • Humanism
  • Personalism
  • Philosophical anthropology
  • Philosophy, Modern
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-257) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Part I: Humanism : its modern construction and deconstruction -- The modern construction of the person -- The critique of modern humanism -- Part II: Pre-philosophical awareness of the foundations of human meaning -- Foundations for human meaning in totemic thought -- Myth as picturing human life and meaning -- Part III: The western notion of the person for global times -- Building the notion of the human person in western philosophy -- Human subjectivity and the unity and plurality of cultures -- Karol Wojtyla's philosophy of person as integration of being and consciousness -- Part IV: Asian paths for person and community -- Confucian harmony and humane progress -- Hinduism : metaphysical path to the holy.
ISBN
  • 9781565182578 (pbk.)
  • 156518257X (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2008024410