Title: Shaping a humane world :
Authors: Kozlarek, Oliver.; Rüsen, Jörn.; Wolff, Ernst.; Stiftung Mercator.; Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Date: 2012
Publisher: Transcript Verlag,
Physical description: 289 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: C
Contents: Introduction: Towards a humane world of many worlds / Oliver Kozlarek, Jörn Rüsen, Ernst Wolff -- Habitus - means - worldliness. Technics in the formation of civilizations / Ernst Wolff -- Humanism. Anthropology - axial ages - modernities / Jörn Rüsen -- Reinterpretation of civilization. Two-way interaction, multiple perspectives, and awareness of issues / Zhang Jie -- On axial ages and other thresholds between epochs / Bernhard Giesen -- The axial age and Islam. Reflections on world and history today / George Stauth -- The theory of the axial age revisited from a theological perspective / Georg Essen -- How unique is east Asian modernity? / Volker H. Schmidt -- Humanisms, the still unfulfilled promise of the axial age of modernity / Oliver Kozlarek -- The arena games in the Roman Empire. A contribution to the explanation of the history of morals and humanity / Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff -- Classical tradition, humanity, occidental humanism. Hellenic-Roman civilization and its claim for universal validity / Hubert Cancik -- Humanity as trans-individuality. Tang Junyi's (1909-1978) Philosophy of Renwen Humanism / Stephan Schmidt.
Subject headings (LCSH): Civilization, Ancient; Civilization, Modern; Civilization.; Essays.; Humanism.; Universals (Philosophy)