CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY LIFE

SERIES I. CULTURE AND VALUES, VOL. 6

 

 

THE PLACE OF THE PERSON IN SOCIAL LIFE

 

 

 

Edited by

PAUL PEACHEY

JOHN KROMKOWSKI

GEORGE F. McLEAN

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

PREFACE

George F. McLean

 

INTRODUCTION

Paul Peachey

 

PART I. PERSON

 

1. Notions of Person and Personal Growth

by George F. McLean, School of Philosophy, CUA, Washington, D.C.

 

2. Humanism and Freedom

by Ghia Nodia, Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Tbilisi, USSR

 

3. Anthropological "Person"s, Some Methodological Turns

by Jon W. Anderson, Anthropology Dept., CUA

 

PART II. PERSON AND SOCIETY: THE PROBLEM

 

4. Recovering from the Consequences of the Private Life

by John Kromkowski, Politics Dept., CUA

 

5. The Traditional Self in a Changing Society

by Richard A. Graham, Harvard Center for Moral Development

 

6. Structures and Persons in the Modernization of Societies 

by Paul Peachey, Sociology Dept., CUA

 

7. The Person, Society and the State 

by Bronius Kuzmickas, Academy of Sciences of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, SSR

 

8. Max Scheler's Personalism and Bourgeois Liberalism 

by Stephen Schneck, CUA

 

PART III. TRADITION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MODERN SOCIETY

 

9. Hermeneutics and Heritage 

by George F. McLean, CUA

 

10. Africa: The Question of Identity 

by Izu Marcel Onyeocha, Claretian Institute of Philosophy, Nigeria

 

11. Solidarity, Power and Democracy in Africa 

by Atomate Epas-Ngan (Armand), The Catholic Faculties of Kinshasa, Zaire

 

12. Person and the Community 

by Kaguongo Wambari, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

 

13. Responsibilities and Rights: Tradition in Chinese Society 

by Yang Fenggang, The People's University of China, Beijing

 

14. The Intellectual's Role in Social Change 

by Osman Bilen, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey

 

PART IV. BUILDING A SOCIETY

 

15. On the Problem of the Relation `Between' Person and Society 

by Assen Davidov, University of Sofia, Bulgaria

 

16. Person, Work and Religious Tradition 

by John Farrelly, DeSales School of Theology, Washington, D.C.

 

17. Judeo-Christian Values and the Ecological Crisis 

by Dean R. Hoge, CUA

 

18. Person, Society and Education 

by Amado I. Carandang, Dallas and the Philippines

 

19. International Migration to Washington: Conflict, Margination or Structural Integration 

by Timothy Ready, CUA

 

20. The "International Outlook" 

by Paul E. Murray, CUA

 

21. Dance or Dancer: Another Look at the Relation Person-Community 

by Joseph Donders, Washington Theological Union, Washington, D.C.

 

Acknowledgements