A New Humanism

Informationen zum Autor Daisaku Ikeda is the President of Soka Gakkai International! a Buddhist network that actively promotes peace! culture and education whose members come from over 190 countries throughout the world. He is the author of more than 100 books on Buddhist themes! and received the United Nations Peace Award in 1983. Klappentext 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. 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceEditors' NotePART I: ART, LITERATURE, AND EDUCATIONCreative Life (Institut de France, 1989)The Kemalist Revolution: A Model (Ankara University, 1992)A Matter of the Heart (Peking University, 1990)Beyond the Profit Motive (University of the Philippines, 1991)The Flight of Creativity (University of Bologna, 1994)The Magnificent Cosmos (Moscow State University, 1994)Thoughts on Education for Global Citizenship (Columbia University, 1996)Building a Great Spiritual Bridge to the New Century (University of Havana, 1996)PART II: DIMENSIONS OF CULTUREA New Road to East-West Cultural Exchange (Moscow State University, 1975)The Mexican Poetic Spirit (University of Guadalajara, 1981)A Harmonious Blend of Cultures (Saint Kliment Ohridsky University of Sofia, 1981)Crossroads of Civilization (University of Bucharest, 1983)A New Global Awareness (University of Macau, 1991)The Making of History (Fudan University, 1984)Surmounting Darkness and the Faustian Agony (Ateneo de Santander, 1995)PART III: RELIGION AND OUR TIMEA Godless Civilization (Peking University, 1980)The Enduring Self (University of California at Los Angeles, 1974)Gandhism and the Modern World (National Museum of India, 1992)An Ethos of Symbiosis (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 1992)Mahayana Buddhism and Twenty-first Century Civilization (Harvard University, 1993)Homage to the Sagarmatha of Humanism (Tribhuvan University, 1995)PART IV: THE IMPERATIVE OF PEACERadicalism Reconsidered (Claremont McKenna College, 1993)An Infinite Horizon (Shenzhen University, 1994)A Garden of Imagination (Brazilian Academy of Letters, 1993)Globalism and Nationalism (University of Buenos Aires, 1990)The Age of Soft Power (Harvard University, 1991)Peace and Human Security (East-West Center in Hawaii, 1995)Makiguchi's Lifelong Pursuit of Justice and Humane Values (Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1996)GlossaryIndex...

Préface
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.

Auteur
Daisaku Ikeda is the President of Soka Gakkai International, a Buddhist network that actively promotes peace, culture and education whose members come from over 190 countries throughout the world. He is the author of more than 100 books on Buddhist themes, and received the United Nations Peace Award in 1983.

Contenu
Preface Editors' Note PART I: ART, LITERATURE, AND EDUCATION Creative Life (Institut de France, 1989) The Kemalist Revolution: A Model (Ankara University, 1992) A Matter of the Heart (Peking University, 1990) Beyond the Profit Motive (University of the Philippines, 1991) The Flight of Creativity (University of Bologna, 1994) The Magnificent Cosmos (Moscow State University, 1994) Thoughts on Education for Global Citizenship (Columbia University, 1996) Building a Great Spiritual Bridge to the New Century (University of Havana, 1996) PART II: DIMENSIONS OF CULTURE A New Road to East-West Cultural Exchange (Moscow State University, 1975) The Mexican Poetic Spirit (University of Guadalajara, 1981) A Harmonious Blend of Cultures (Saint Kliment Ohridsky University of Sofia, 1981) Crossroads of Civilization (University of Bucharest, 1983) A New Global Awareness (University of Macau, 1991) The Making of History (Fudan University, 1984) Surmounting Darkness and the Faustian Agony (Ateneo de Santander, 1995) PART III: RELIGION AND OUR TIME A Godless Civilization (Peking University, 1980) The Enduring Self (University of California at Los Angeles, 1974) Gandhism and the Modern World (National Museum of India, 1992) An Ethos of Symbiosis (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 1992) Mahayana Buddhism and Twenty-first Century Civilization (Harvard University, 1993) Homage to the Sagarmatha of Humanism (Tribhuvan University, 1995) PART IV: THE IMPERATIVE OF PEACE Radicalism Reconsidered (Claremont McKenna College, 1993) An Infinite Horizon (Shenzhen University, 1994) A Garden of Imagination (Brazilian Academy of Letters, 1993) Globalism and Nationalism (University of Buenos Aires, 1990) The Age of Soft Power (Harvard University, 1991) Peace and Human Security (East-West Center in Hawaii, 1995) Makiguchi's Lifelong Pursuit of Justice and Humane Values (Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1996) Glossary Index