Civil society and social reconstruction / edited by George F. McLean.

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McLean, George F [editor]

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TextSeries: Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change, Series I, vol.16Publication details: Washington, DC : The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1996.Description: xii, 434 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

0819173576

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LOC classification:

JC 336 C499 1996

Contents:

PART I NATURE AND MODELS OF CIVIL SOCIETY -- Chapter I. Philosophy and civil society: its nature, its past and its future -- Chapter II. Three models of civil society in the framing of the U.S. Republic: 1781-1789 -- PART II PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL LIFE -- Chapter III. Community, coercion and civil society: constructive pluralism or servile state? -- Chapter IV. The state, development, and civil society: in the case of Algeria -- Chapter V. Multiculturalism and the bounds of civil society -- PART III THE CONSTRUCTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY -- Chapter VI. Quantitative and qualitative growth in industrial global society -- Chapter VII. Hospitality, community, and literary reading and writing -- Chapter VIII. Rituals and public life: their role in the process of social reconstruction -- Chapter IX. "The family": Obstacle or Embryo of civil society -- Chapter X. Neighborhoods -- Chapter XI. Notes on an international civil society: a comment on the report of the commission on global governance -- Chapter XII. Public confidence building measures as examples of civil society initiatives: a practical perspective -- PART IV METAPHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS FOR CIVIL SOCIETY -- Chapter XIII. Current humanoids and the return to civil society -- Chapter XIV. Religious experience and civil society -- Chapter XV. America's quest for a new moral bedrock-a Muslim perspective -- Chapter XVI. The four goals of life in Hindu thought as principles for a civil society -- Chapter XVII. Iniquity and retribution in the Hindu-Buddhist sources -- Chapter XVIII. Civil equality of religions in society

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PART I NATURE AND MODELS OF CIVIL SOCIETY --
Chapter I. Philosophy and civil society: its nature, its past and its future --
Chapter II. Three models of civil society in the framing of the U.S. Republic: 1781-1789 --

PART II PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL LIFE --
Chapter III. Community, coercion and civil society: constructive pluralism or servile state? --
Chapter IV. The state, development, and civil society: in the case of Algeria --
Chapter V. Multiculturalism and the bounds of civil society --

PART III THE CONSTRUCTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY --
Chapter VI. Quantitative and qualitative growth in industrial global society --
Chapter VII. Hospitality, community, and literary reading and writing --
Chapter VIII. Rituals and public life: their role in the process of social reconstruction --
Chapter IX. "The family": Obstacle or Embryo of civil society --
Chapter X. Neighborhoods --
Chapter XI. Notes on an international civil society: a comment on the report of the commission on global governance --
Chapter XII. Public confidence building measures as examples of civil society initiatives: a practical perspective --

PART IV METAPHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS FOR CIVIL SOCIETY --
Chapter XIII. Current humanoids and the return to civil society --
Chapter XIV. Religious experience and civil society --
Chapter XV. America's quest for a new moral bedrock-a Muslim perspective --
Chapter XVI. The four goals of life in Hindu thought as principles for a civil society --
Chapter XVII. Iniquity and retribution in the Hindu-Buddhist sources --
Chapter XVIII. Civil equality of religions in society

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