Maxima Moralia

ISBN-13: 9781032274362 / Miękka / 2023 / 74 str.

India) Jahanbegloo Sonipat Ramin (Jindal Global University

Opis

This book highlights the problem of one dimensional, reductionistic life of the modern individual. An expression of crisis in our world, it discusses the imperative need to have a more comprehensive, non-reductionist life where the Other is incorporated, based on virtues like love, empathy, equality, and compassion.

Spis treści

Introduction

1 Age of Mediocrity

2 The Power of Agape

3 The Art of Maturity

4 Paideia and Epistemic Humility

5 The Otherness of the Other

6 The Silence of Wisdom

7 An Examined Civilization

8 The Nobility of Spirit

9 Empathy and Conquest

10 An Ontology of Fragility

11 The Meaning of Life

12 The Solitude of Nonviolence

Index

O autorze

Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian–Canadian philosopher. He is presently the executive director of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence and Peace Studies and the vice-dean of the School of Law at Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India. He is the winner of the Peace Prize from the United Nations Association in Spain (2009) for his extensive academic work in promoting dialogue among cultures and his advocacy for nonviolence. More recently, he is the winner of the Josep Palau i Fabre International Essay Prize. Some of his most recent publications are Gadflies in the Public Space (2016), The Decline of  Civilization (2017), Letters to a Young Philosopher (2017), On Forgiveness and Revenge (2017) and The Global Gandhi: Essays in Comparative Political Philosophy (2018).