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Cultural Essentials versus Universal Values?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Marietta Stepanyants
Marietta Stepanyants*
Affiliation:
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Abstract

This paper adopts a comparative approach to analyze the crucial issue of the dynamics between universally shared values and the essentials of different cultures. It presents the ways in which universal values are conceptualized in Western, Indian and Muslim philosophy, presenting not only a historical overview but referring to modern authors such as Daya Krishna, D.P. Chattopadhyaya, Richard Rorty, Muhammad Iqbal, S.H. Nasr and Abdolkarim Soroush to show how these authors implicitly use, or do not use, cultural essential and universal values in their own work. It is eventually claims that comparative philosophy is of crucial importance for the future of philosophical thought in a global world.

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Diogenes , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , August 2008 , pp. 13 - 23
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2008

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