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9781848854826

A New Humanism The University Addresses of Daisaku Ikeda

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-10-15
  • Publisher: I. B. Tauris
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Summary

"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 realized 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.

Author Biography

Daisaku Ikeda (1928-) is the President of Soka Gakkai International, a lay Buddhist organization whose adherents come from over 190 countries throughout the world. He is the author of more than 80 books on Buddhist themes, and received the United Nations Peace Award in 1983.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsp. ix
Editor's notep. xi
Preface to the first editionp. xv
Art, Literature and Education
Creative Life (Institut de France, 1989)p. 3
A Matter of The Heart (Peking University, 1990)p. 12
Bleyond The Profit Motive (University of the Philippines, 1991p. 19
The Kemalist Revolution: A Model (Ankara University, 1992)p. 23
Flight of Creativity (University of Bologna, 1994)p. 31
Magnificent Cosmos (Moscow State University, 1994)p. 52
Thoughts On Education for Global Citizenship (Columbia University Teachers College, 1996)p. 52
Dimensions of Culture
A New Road To East-West Cultural Exchange (Moscow State University, 1975)p. 65
The Mexican Poetic Spirit (University of Guadalajara, 1981)p. 76
A Harmonious Blend of Cultures (Sofia University, 1981)p. 82
Crossroads of Civilisation (University of Bucharest, 1983)p. 89
The Making of History (Fudan University, 1984)p. 97
A New Global Awareness (University of East Asia, 1991)p. 101
Surmounting Darkness and The Faustian Agony: Light For Twenty-First-Century Civilisation (Ateneo de Santander, 1995)p. 110
Building A Great Spiritual Bridge To The New Century (University of Havana, 1996)p. 122
Religion and Our Time
A Godless Civilisation (Packing University, 1980)p. 131
The Enduring Self (UCLA, 1974)p. 136
Gandhism and The Modern World (National Museum, New Delhi, 1992)p. 144
Ethos of Symbiosis (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 1992)p. 155
Mahayana Buddhism and Twenty-First-Century Civilisation (Harvard University, 1993)p. 165
Homage To The Sagarmatha of Humanism: The Living Lessons of Gautama Buddha (Tribhuvan University, 1995)p. 176
Imperative of Peace
The Age of 'Soft Power' (Harvard University, 1991)p. 189
Radicalism Reconsidered (Clarmont McKenna College, 1993)p. 198
Infinite Horizon (Shenzhen University, 1994)p. 207
Garden of Imagination (Brazilian Academy of Letters, 1993)p. 215
Globalism and Nationalism (University of Buenos Aires, 1990)p. 225
Peace and Human Security: A Buddhist Perspective for The Twenty-First Century (East-West Center, 1995)p. 229
Makinguchi's Lifelong Pursuit of Justice and Humane Values (Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1996)p. 241
Glossaryp. 253
Notesp. 259
Indexp. 273
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