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200 10$aIn search of the good life $ea pedagogy for troubled times /$fFred Dallmayr
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aLexington, Ky $cUniversity Press of Kentucky$dc2007
215   $a1 online resource (337 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aProminent searchers in the past -- A pedagogy of the heart: Saint Bonaventure's spiritual itinerary -- Walking humbly with your God: Jn?anadev 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.
330   $aTo whom should we look for moral guidance during times of global violence, scarcity, and corruption? For two millennia, Aristotle's writings have taught that the ethically ""good life"" is the highest purpose of human existence. In In Search of the Good Life, renowned philosopher Fred Dallmayr traces the development of this notion, illuminating the connections between Greek philosophy, Judeo-Christian tradition, Eastern religions, and postindustrial social criticism. Dallmayr searches the writings of Bonaventure, Nicolaus of Cusa, Leibniz, Montesquieu, and others, for models of the good lif
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