CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES I, CULTURE AND VALUES, VOLUME 22

 

 

FREEDOM, CULTURAL TRADITIONS

AND PROGRESS

 

Philosophy in Civil Society and Nation Building:

Tashkent Lectures, 1999

 

 

by

George F. McLean

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. LEVELS OF FREEDOM

 

LECTURE I. FREEDOM AS A LIFE PROJECT

 

CHAPTER II. CULTURE AS FREEDOM SHAPED THROUGH VALUES AND VIRTUES

 

LECTURE II. CULTURAL TRADITIONS AS CUMULATIVE FREEDOM: THE SYNCHRONIC DIMENSION

 

CHAPTER III. CIVIL SOCIETY AND CULTURE

 

LECTURE III. CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE PEOPLE

 

CHAPTER IV. PROGRESS AND PLURALISM

 

LECTURE IV. CULTURAL TRADITIONS  AS PROSPECTIVE AND PROGRESSIVE: THE DIACHRONIC DIMENSION

 

CHAPTER V. GLOBALIZATION AS DIVERSITY IN UNITY

 

LECTURE V. PLURALISM AND GLOBALIZATION