""The natural sympathy and understanding of people everywhere must be the soil in which the new humanism can thrive."" For Daisaku Ikeda, whose words these are, education has long been one of the fundamental priorities of his work and teaching. And his emphasis on the intellectual legacy bequeathed to humanity by the great teachers of civilization is in this volume encapsulated by the notion of a ""new humanism"": a significant residue of wisdom that in the right circumstances may be passed on to future generations, expanding horizons, making connnctions between different cultures and...
""The natural sympathy and understanding of people everywhere must be the soil in which the new humanism can thrive."" For Daisaku Ikeda, whose wor...
Globalization has brought different civilizations and peoples into new and closer contact, but this novel intimacy has not always led to greater understanding. On the one hand, the Western infatuation with the East, nurtured and developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, has sometimes been replaced by fear and distaste. On the other hand, the Eastern fascination with Western scientific and technological marvels has at times given way to a loathing of arrogance, materialism, and militarism. Global terrorism is the scourge of our times, while intense anxiety is increasingly bound up...
Globalization has brought different civilizations and peoples into new and closer contact, but this novel intimacy has not always led to greater under...
