New Humanism, A : The University Addresses of Daisaku Ikeda.
Title:
New Humanism, A : The University Addresses of Daisaku Ikeda.
Author:
Ikeda, Daisaku.
ISBN:
9780857731951
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (305 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Editor's Note -- Preface to the third edition -- PART I - ART, LITERATURE AND EDUCATION -- 1. Creative Life -- 2. A Matter of the Heart -- 3. Beyond the Profit Motive -- 4. The Kemalist Revolution: A model -- 5. Flight of Creativity -- 6. Magnificent Cosmos -- 7. Thoughts on Education for Global Citizenship -- PART II - DIMENSIONS OF CULTURE -- 8. A New Road to East-West Cultural Exchange -- 9. The Mexican Poetic Spirit -- 10. A Harmonious Blend of Cultures -- 11. Crossroads of Civilisation -- 12. The Making of History -- 13. A New Global Awarness -- 14. Surmounting Darkness and the Faustian Agony: Light for Twenty-First-Century Civilisation -- 15. Building a great spiritual bridge to the new century -- PART III - RELIGION AND OUR TIME -- 16. A Godless Civilisation -- 17.The Enduring Self -- 18. Gandhism and the Modern World -- 19. Ethos of Symbiosis -- 20. Mahayana Buddhism and Twenty-First-Century Civilisation -- 21. Homage to the Sagarmatha of Humanism: The Living Lessons of Gautama Buddha -- PART IV - IMPERATIVE OF PEACE -- 22. The Age of 'Soft Power' -- 23. Radicalism Reconsidered -- 24. Infinite Horizon -- 25. Garden of Imagination -- 26. Globalism and Nationalism -- 27. Peace and Human Security: A Buddhist Perspective for the Twenty-First Century -- 28. Makiguchi's Lifelong Pursuit of Justice and Humane Values -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index.
Abstract:
'The natural sympathy and understanding of people everywheremust 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. 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 ofwisdom that in the right circumstances may be passed on to future generations, expanding horizons, making connections between different cultures and encouraging fresh insights and new discoveries across the globe. These circumstances are perhaps most fully realised in the context of universities. In promoting his core values of education and peace, the author has delivered lectures and speeches at more than twenty-five academies, colleges and research institutes worldwide. This stimulating collection, which includes the author's most recent lectures, ranges widely across topics as diverse as art, religion, culture and time, and draws creatively on the sages of ancient India, China and Japan as well as on visionary thinkers from every nation, including Tolstoy, Victor Hugo and Gandhi.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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