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Description of  Shaping a Humane World: Civilizations - Axial Times - Modernities - Humanisms (Being Human: Caught in the Web of Cultures - Humanism in the Age of Globalization)

3837619419 pdf The generation of meaning is the primary precondition for acting and thinking. The essays in this volume contribute to a discourse on this matter with a decentred, globalized world in mind. The notions civilization, humanism and modernity - far from being exclusively Western ideas - may facilitate joint efforts of reflecting on the universality of current human conditions, particularly since such reflexion is possible from particular cultural perspectives. Modernity presents us with a second Axial Time in which the quest for a plural, but shared, humane world is the challenge.