CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES I, CULTURE AND VALUES, VOLUME 4

edited by

John Kromkowski and George F. McLean

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

I. Cultural Identity and Cultural Pluralism

1. Meeting of Cultures: Meeting of Peoples

by George F. McLean, School of Philosophy, CUA; Sec., Council of Research in Values and Philosophy

2. The Unity of Human Nature and the Diversity of Cul tures

by Kenneth L. Schmitz, University of Toronto, Canada

3. The Nature of Culture and Human Nature

by T.I. Oizerman, Inst. of Philosophy; Member, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR

4. Cultural Pluralism and Development: the Ethnic Situation of Guatemalan Youth

by Antonio Gallo and Luisa Molina Rafael Landivar Univ., Guatemala, Guatemala

5. The Development of Ethnic Consciousness in the United States

by J. Kromkowski, Dep. of Politics, CUA; Dir., Office of Urban and Ethnic Affairs

II. Cultures in Change and Conflict

6. The Royal Commentaries of the Incas

by Roberto Hozven, Dep. of Modern Languages, CUA

7. Cultural Identity and Modernity in Africa: A Case for a New Philosphy

by J.I. Asike, Dep. of Philosophy, Univ. of Port Har court, Nigeria; Visiting Prof., Howard University

8. Social Harmony and Personal Fulfilment: An Analysis of Traditional Chinese Culture

by Na Chen, Dep. of Comparative Literature, Univ. of Peking, Beijing, China

9. Language and National Unity: The Philippine Experience

by Eulalio Baltazar, Dep. of Philosophy, Univ. of the District of Columbia

10. National Unity and Ethnic Identity: The Russian Experi ence

by Priscilla Roosevelt, Dep. of History, CUA

III. Culture and Community

12. Person Community and Culture

by Varghese Manimali, Dep. of Philosophy, Vianney College, India

13. Community: Given, Achieved or Both

by Paul Peachey, Dep. of Sociology, CUA

14. Consensus in African Interest-Group Conflict: Democra tization and Socialization of Labor

by Atomate Epas-Ngan Armand

15. The Philosophy of Gikuyu Proverbs and Other Sayings with Particular Reference to Ethics

by G.J. Wanjohi

16. Learning to Participate: Some Thoughts on Humanistic and Pragmatic Education for a Multi-Cultural Community, Polity and World

by Timothy Ready, Dep. of Anthropology, CUA

IV. Relations Between Cultures

17. Self Knowledge, Self Identity and Cooperation Between Peoples

by George F. McLean, School of Philosophy, CUA

18. The Universe of Human Thought

by Krzysztof Turek, Dep. of Philosophy, Pontifical Academy of Theology, Krakow, Poland

19. Two Dimensions of Culture

by Krzysztof Turek

20. Universalism as the Meaning of Recent History: Develop ments in the Marxist Theory of Formation

by Janusz Kuczynski, Dep. of Philosophy, Univ. of Warsaw; Editor, Dialectics and Humanism

21. Mystical Texts as an Entry into the Cross-Cultural Study of Religion

by James Price, Dep. of Religion, CUA

22. Eschatology in an African Cultural Context and in Bib lical Literature

by J. Donders, Dir., Africa Faith and Justice Network; Past Ch., Dep. of Philosophy, Univ. of Nairobi