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Author Dallmayr, Fred R. (Fred Reinhard), 1928-

Title In search of the good life [electronic resource] : a pedagogy for troubled times / Fred Dallmayr.

Imprint Lexington, Ky : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.

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Description xvi, 320 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prominent searchers in the past -- A pedagogy of the heart: Saint Bonaventure's spiritual itinerary -- Walking humbly with your God: Jnanadev and the Warkari movement -- Wise ignorance: Nicolaus of Cusa's search for truth -- The natural theology of the Chinese: Leibniz and Confucianism -- Montesquieu's Persian letters: a timely classic -- Beautiful freedom: Schiller on the aesthetic education of humanity -- Pedagogy for our troubled times -- Why the classics today? Lessons from Gadamer and De Bary -- Canons or cannons? On mobilizing global democracy -- An end to evil: conquest or moral pedadogy? -- Transnational citizenship: paths beyond the nation-state -- Religious freedom: preserving the salt of the earth -- Love and justice: a memorial tribute to Paul Ricoeur -- Appendixes -- A. Multiculturalism and the good life: comments on Bhikhu Parekh -- B. Modalities of intercultural dialogue: UNESCO at sixty -- In a different voice: some afterthoughts on violence -- Building peace: how? -- Notes.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Political sociology.
Political science -- Philosophy.
Democracy.
Ethics.
Civics.
Theological virtues.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780813124575 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813172682 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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