Beyond modernity
Subtitle: the recovery of person and community in global times : lectures in China and Vietnam
By: by George F. McLean.
Series: Cultural heritage and contemporary change.  Series I,  Culture and values -- v. 37
Publisher: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781565182578
Subjects: Philosophical anthropology; Agent (Philosophy); Personalism; Humanism; Philosophy, Modern; Civilization, Modern
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I: Humanism : its modern construction and deconstruction; title: The modern construction of the person; title: The critique of modern humanism; title: Part II: Pre-philosophical awareness of the foundations of human meaning; title: Foundations for human meaning in totemic thought; title: Myth as picturing human life and meaning; title: Part III: The western notion of the person for global times; title: Building the notion of the human person in western philosophy; title: Human subjectivity and the unity and plurality of cultures; title: Karol Wojtyla's philosophy of person as integration of being and consciousness; title: Part IV: Asian paths for person and community; title: Confucian harmony and humane progress; title: Hinduism : metaphysical path to the holy.