The ethical crises of civilization: moral meltdown or advance?
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adam_text | Contents
Foreword xviii
Preface xix
1. Prologue: The Paradox of Our Time 1
The Moral Crisis That We Face 2
What We Can Learn From History 4
The Keys to Understanding 7
The Meanings of Civilization 7
The Primacy of Ethical Values 9
Theme and Variations 11
2. This Worldly China, Other Worldly India 15
This Worldly or Other Worldly Values 15
The Civilization of the Chinese 17
The Indian Social Order 28
3. The Split Personality of Western Civilization 41
Origins of Western Civilization 41
The Values of Hellas 43
The Roman Achievement: Latin, Law, and Legions 50
An Other Worldly Faith: The Judaic Model 52
Jesus and the Values Revolution 55
The Power of the Catholic Church 57
Europe s Renaissance 62
Return to Humanism 63
4. The Rise and Decline of Civilizations 69
Is There a Design in History? 70
Continuity or Breakdown 73
What the Historical Record Discloses 77
The West and Islam Declines and Revivals 78
What Causes the Rise or the Decline? 82
A Different Answer to the Question:
How Values Evolve 90
Virtues Transformed Into Vices 95
The Wavelike Rhythm 99
5. Creative Eras and Areas 103
Civilization s Creative Eras 105
The Triggers of Creativity 107
New People in the Seats of Power 111
The Modern Revolutions 112
Which Are the Creative Areas? 113
Mutual Stimuli Among Varied Fields 123
Contacts Between Civilizations 126
The Daring of the Audacious 132
6. Humanity s First Great Moral Advance 135
How Skeptics and Pessimists View Human Nature 136
The Possibility of Ethical Improvement 140
The Great Eras of Ethical Progress 142
The Axial Age 143
Breakdowns and Breakthroughs 144
Zoroaster and the Conflict of Good and Evil 146
The Buddha, in Time and Place 148
Other Worldly Israel; This Worldly Hellas 150
What China Demonstrates 152
The Social Acceptance of Ethical Change 154
Morality and the Mores 158
The Political Context and the Impact of Religion 159
7. The Enlightenment and the Age of Progress 167
The Enlightenment and the Age of Reason 169
Optimists and Reformers 171
How Institutions Alter Values 175
The Ethical Revolution of the Nineteenth Century 177
The Stimuli of Democracy and Industrialism 180
Private Initiatives and Public Enterprise 182
The Limits to Progress 185
The Economists Declaration of Independence 188
The New Wealth and Its Fruits 191
8. The Two Profiles of the Contemporary World:
Our Rights and Duties, and Our Education 195
Wherein Contemporary Civilization Is Different 195
Ethical Pluses and Minuses of the Twentieth Century 198
Germany and South Africa in Our Time 211
Our Duties to Others 213
Educating Humanity 219
The Power of Religious Belief 225
Mass Culture and Mass Communication 227
9. The Two Profiles of the Contemporary World
(Continued): Social and Political Patterns 231
A Healthier Planet 232
The Sickness of the Third World 234
Threats to the Environment 236
Poverty in Civilization 241
Government in a Positive Role 247
Governing for Good or Evil 254
The Warfare State 259
The Insanity of the Arms Race 261
Needed: The Priorities of Peace 264
10. Into a New Millennium 269
Shifts in World Politics 270
The West and the Rest 270
What Future for India? 272
Islam, in Search of Mecca 275
China s Yang and Yin 279
The Secular Religions 281
Our Self inflicted Decline 284
The Need for an Ethical Leap 287
The Values of Humanism 288
Why Improvement Is Possible 289
One World, Many States 291
From Nation States to Region States 292
Divisive Effects of the Organized Religions 294
The Unity of Humanity 295
The Priority of North South Relations 297
A New Axial Age? 298
Epilogue 300
Notes 302
Bibliography 320
Index 327
About the Author 343
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