Freedom, Cultural Traditions and Progress Philosophy in Civil Society and Nation Building:Tashkent Lectures, 1999

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CHAPTER I. LEVELS OF FREEDOM I. Empirical Freedom of Choice II. Formal Freedom to Choose as One Ought III. Existential Freedom as the Self-Constitution of a Life Project LECTURE I. FREEDOM AS A LIFE PROJECT CHAPTER II. CULTURE AS FREEDOM SHAPED THROUGH VALUES AND VIRTUES I. Values II. Virtues III. Culture IV. Cultural Tradition a. The Genesis of Tradition in Community b. Reason and Hermeneutics LECTUREII. CULTURAL TRADITIONS AS CUMULATIVE FREEDOM: THE SYNCHRONIC DIMENSION CHAPTER III. CIVIL SOCIETY AND CULTURE I. Greek Theory II. Freedom and Responsibility III. Solidarity IV. Subsidiarity V. Governance in Civil Society VI. Civil Society in Medieval Thought: The Existential Sense of Person, Solidarity and Subsidiarity VII. The Anglo-Saxon Enlightenment and Contemporary Liberal Theory IV .Freedom, Cultural Traditions and Progress VIII. Continental Rationalism: Kant, Hegel and Marx IX. Culture as the New Space for Civil Society LECTURE HI. CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE PEOPLE CHAPTER IV. PROGRESS AND PLURALISM I. Progress as Application of Cultural Tradition a. Tradition and Its Application: Renewal in Civil Society b. The Metaphysical Roots: Being as Living II. Pluralism as Dialogue of Cultural Traditions a. Interpretation b. Openness to Being Questioned III. Pluralism and Progress LECTURE IV. CULTURAL TRADITIONS AS PROSPECTIVE AND PROGRESSIVE:THE DIACHRONIC DIMENSION CHAPTER V. GLOBALIZATION AS DIVERSITY IN UNITY I. Global Concerns II. Global Thinking a. Discursive Reasoning b. Intellection III. Global Structures of Diversity in Unity a. The Unity of the Whole b. Diversity as Contraction c. Forms of Relation IV. The Dynamism of a Global Order LECTURE V. PLURALISM AND GLOBALIZATION