CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES I. CULTURE AND VALUES, VOLUME 29

 

 

PERSONS, PEOPLES and CULTURES:

Living Together in a Global Age

 

by

 

George F. McLean

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Introduction

 

PART I. GLOBAL CHALLENGE AND ANCIENT RESPONSE: FROM ENLIGHTENMENT TO WISDOM

 

Chapter I. Person and the Challenge of Modernity: from Rationalism to Depersonalization

 

Chapter II. Person and Its Metaphysical Foundations: from Shadows to the Light of Wisdom

 

PART II. THE METAPHYSICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PERSON

 

Chapter III. Person as Existence (sat): from Role to Subject

 

Chapter IV. Person as Consciousness (cit): from Objectivity to Subjectivity

 

Chapter V. Person as Bliss (ananda): from Choice to Democratic Freedom

 

PART III. FROM PERSON TO PEOPLES AND CULTURES IN A GLOBAL AGE

 

Chapter VI. Person as Culture: from Personal Interests to Cultural Traditions

 

Chapter VII. Person as Relations: from Conflict to Convergence

 

Chapter VIII. Person as Gift: from Love to Global Peace

 

Epilogue: Living together in a Multi-cultural and Multi-religious World