Democracy, Culture, and Values Vol.2 Democracy and Values in Global Times: With Nigeria as a Case Study:
- Washington Council for Research in Values and Philosophy 2004
- 258p
- Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change Series VII, Seminars on Culture &; 200400ENGGPC1 .
includes index and biblioraphy
PART I. RE-THINKING VALUES Chapter I. Culture and Democracy- George F. McLean Chapter II. Re-thinking Nationalism andDemocracyin the Light of Post-Communist Experience-Ghia Nodia Chapter III. The Mythomania of Contemporary Absolutism-Penka Marmova Varlcheva Chapter IV. Why Democracy Can`t Be Taught- Richard A. Graham PART II. BUILDING DEMOCRATIC STRUCTURES Chapter V. Freedom and Choice: Between Heidegger`s "das Nichts" and Jaspers`s "das Umgreifende"-Dragos Papa Chapter VI. New Dimensions of Democracy- Hristo Smolenov PART III. ACCOMMODATING PLURALISM Chapter VII. Biblical Ethics in Alfonso X`s General Estoria: A Historicist Critique of Cultural Authority- Roberta J. Gonzalez-Casanovas Chapter VIII. Human Dignity, Natural Law,and Human Rights-William E. May Chapter IX. Democracy, Minorities and the Plurality of World Views- Habib C. Malik PART IV. CASE STUDY: NIGERIA AND DEMOCRACY Chapter X. Nigeria and Western Democracy:The Possibility of an African Alternative- Izu Marcel Onyeocha Chapter XI. The Role of the Civil Society in the Establishment and Maintenance of a Democratic Society in Nigeria- Abubakar S. Mohammed Chapter XII. Institutional Patterns in Social Transformation- Joseph Abah