Paths to Dialoque

Hans-Christian Günther (Ed.)



Paths to Dialogue



Interactions between eastern and western cultures



East and West. Philosophy, ethics, politics and human rights, Band 1



Klappentext



This volume contains papers by Cheng Zhimin, Ivo De Gennaro, Gu Zhengkun, Hans-Christian Günther, Monika Kirkoskar-Steinbach and Yamaguchi Ichiro, addressing fundamental problems of intercultural understanding. The Main focus is on the interactions between western and Chinese cultures.



Hans-Christian Günther is professor for classics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. He has widely published on Greek and Roman philosophy and literature, Byzantine and modern Greek studies. Recently he has been more and more interested in intercultural studies, ethics and international politics.



Contents



Preface of the Editor



Notes on Contributors



Ivo De Gennaro:

The Way We Speak: Preparatory Considerations on the Colloquy of European and East Asian Thinking



Yamaguchi Ichiro:

Untersuchungen des Kulturkonflikts in der genetischen Phänmenologie Husserls



H.-C. Günther:

The Enlightenment, China and the West



H.-C. Günther:

The Crisis of Western Rationalism and the East



Appendix: Freedom of Speech in a Liberal Western Democracy: The Guardian and the NZZ (Neue Züricher Zeitung)



Gu Zengkun:

A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Values and Their Origins: Family - Nation - World



Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach:

The Role of Natural Law in Gandhi's Social Utopia



Cheng Zhimin:

Politeia, Cosmopolis, and Globalization