In search of the good life
Subtitle: a pedagogy for troubled times
By: Fred Dallmayr.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lexington, KY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780813124575
Subjects: Political sociology; Political science -- Philosophy; Democracy; Ethics; Civics; Theological virtues
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prominent searchers in the past; title: A pedagogy of the heart: Saint Bonaventure's spiritual itinerary; title: Walking humbly with your God: Jñanadev and the Warkari movement; title: Wise ignorance: Nicolaus of Cusa's search for truth; title: The natural theology of the Chinese: Leibniz and Confucianism; title: Montesquieu's Persian letters: a timely classic; title: Beautiful freedom: Schiller on the aesthetic education of humanity; title: Pedagogy for our troubled times; title: Why the classics today? Lessons from Gadamer and De Bary; title: Canons or cannons? On mobilizing global democracy; title: An end to evil: conquest or moral pedadogy?; title: Transnational citizenship: paths beyond the nation-state; title: Religious freedom: preserving the salt of the earth; title: Love and justice: a memorial tribute to Paul Ricoeur; title: Appendixes; title: A. Multiculturalism and the good life: comments on Bhikhu Parekh; title: B. Modalities of intercultural dialogue: UNESCO at sixty; title: In a different voice: some afterthoughts on violence; title: Building peace: how?; title: Notes.