Enduring questions
Subtitle: for an intercultural world
By: Baldwin-Wallace College, edited by Barbara Rolleston
Contributors: Rolleston, Barbara Sherman
Publisher: Baldwin-Wallace College
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berea, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780976667919
Subjects: Social ethics; Philosophy; Philosophical anthropology; Political science; Economics
Notes: Text in English.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: What does it mean to be a human being? Focus on Biology and Culture; title: Cultural dimensions; title: Culture / Conrad P. Kottak; title: Cultures and organizaitions: Software of the mind / Geert Hofstede and Gert Jan Hofstede; title: Constructing categories of difference / Karen Elaine Rosenblum and Toni-Michelle C. Travis; title: Biological Dimensions; title: The descent of man / Charles Darwin; title: On aggression / Konrad Lorenz; title: Altruism / E.O. Wilson; title: Of our spiritual strivings / W.E.B. Dubois; title: A more perfect union / Barack Obama; title: The Republic / Plato; title: Raising the bar / Sonia Sotomayor; title: How do human beings relate to each other? Focus on rights and responsibilities; title: Human rights as idolatry / Michael Ignatieff; title: Selected books from The Analects / Confucius; title: Western perspectives; title: Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes; title: Two treatises of civil government / John Locke; title: Idea for a universal history from a cosmopolitan point of view / Immanuel Kant; title: Non-Western perspective; title: An Akan perspective on human rights / Kwasi Wiredu; title: Are human rights compatible with Islam / Riffat Hassan; title: The distribution of rights; title: Letters on the equality of sexes / Sarah M. Grimke; title: Non-discrimination and sexual orientation: making place for sexual minorities in the global human rights regime / Jack Donnelly; title: The German ideology / Karl Marx; title: Economic freedom, human freedom, political freedom / Milton Friedman; title: The Civil Rights vision / Thomas Sowell; title: Enterin gthe century of the environment: a new social contract for science / Jane Lubchenco; title: The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin; title: Radical American environmentalism an dwilderness preservation: a third world critique / Ramachandra Guha; title: On environmental rights of the Ogoni people in Nigeria / Ken Saro-Wiwa; title: An essay on the principle of population, statement of the subject, ratios of the increase of population and food / Thomas Malthus; title: Nobel lecture / Muhammad Yunus; title: Water rights: the state, the market, the community / Vandana Shiva; title: The crisis of national identity / Samuel P. Huntington; title: Cosmopolitan contamination / Kwame Appiah; title: On the pursuity of the ideal / Isaiah Berlin; title: What makes people vote Republican / Jonathan Haidt; title: Premissions and Acknowledgements.