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The dialogue of cultural traditions : [manuscript] : global perspective / edited by William Sweet ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural heritage and contemporary change. Series I, Culture and values ; v. 39 | Cultural heritage and contemporary change. Series I, Culture and values ; ; v. 39.Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2008.Description: x, 658 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781565182585 (paper back)
  • 1565182588 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307 22
LOC classification:
  • HM761 .D53 2008
Online resources:
Partial contents:
Preface : an agenda for philosophy / John P. Hogan and George F. McLean -- Introduction : a dialogue of cultural traditions / Robert Magliola and William Sweet -- Prologue : person as essentially cultural : from individual self-interest to cultural traditions / George F. McLean -- Part I: Persons and community -- Persons, rights, and duties -- The person as individual and social being / Rolando M. Gripaldo -- On the meaning of being human in the world : the social dimension / Kazhimurat Abishev -- Human rights : an Islamic approach / Mustafa Koylu -- 'Person and community : rights and duties' : from an Islamic perspective / M.S. Sujimon -- Human dignity and human rights : an appraisal from the viewpoint of present-day Indian Islam / Sirajul Islam -- Group-specific rights : a non-essentialist approach / Plamen Makariev -- Communities, cultural foundations, and civil society -- Cultural foundations for person and community : a view from the center / Olivia Blanchette -- Pluralistic culture and open society / Tran Van Doan -- Ethnicity and globalization / Francis G. Wokabi and Stephen O. Owino -- Between freedom and paternalism as discursive ethical practices : the Ukraine on the road to civil society / Anatolij Karas -- On the intimate relation between social fact and three types of values / Gong Qun -- Human studies in Vietnam at the beginning of the 21st century / Ho Si Quy -- Ethnic diversity and cultural clash in Saint Petersburg press / S. Vinogradova and T. Shaldenkova -- The mysticism of Asia in the philosophical mirror of Asia / Ho Si Quy -- Persons and communities / William Sweet.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface : an agenda for philosophy / John P. Hogan and George F. McLean -- Introduction : a dialogue of cultural traditions / Robert Magliola and William Sweet -- Prologue : person as essentially cultural : from individual self-interest to cultural traditions / George F. McLean -- Part I: Persons and community -- Persons, rights, and duties -- The person as individual and social being / Rolando M. Gripaldo -- On the meaning of being human in the world : the social dimension / Kazhimurat Abishev -- Human rights : an Islamic approach / Mustafa Koylu -- 'Person and community : rights and duties' : from an Islamic perspective / M.S. Sujimon -- Human dignity and human rights : an appraisal from the viewpoint of present-day Indian Islam / Sirajul Islam -- Group-specific rights : a non-essentialist approach / Plamen Makariev -- Communities, cultural foundations, and civil society -- Cultural foundations for person and community : a view from the center / Olivia Blanchette -- Pluralistic culture and open society / Tran Van Doan -- Ethnicity and globalization / Francis G. Wokabi and Stephen O. Owino -- Between freedom and paternalism as discursive ethical practices : the Ukraine on the road to civil society / Anatolij Karas -- On the intimate relation between social fact and three types of values / Gong Qun -- Human studies in Vietnam at the beginning of the 21st century / Ho Si Quy -- Ethnic diversity and cultural clash in Saint Petersburg press / S. Vinogradova and T. Shaldenkova -- The mysticism of Asia in the philosophical mirror of Asia / Ho Si Quy -- Persons and communities / William Sweet.

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