A New Humanism

'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 encouraging fresh insights and new discoveries across the globe. These circumstances are perhaps most fully realised in the context of universities. And in promoting his core values of education and peace, the author has delivered speeches and lectures 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.

Auteur

Daisaku is an author, leading Buddhist thinker, activist, and advocate for global peace.

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