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3. Humanizing the World Central idea, historical presence, and metaphysical vision Th e natural world— the stage for our torment ...

humanizing the world 91 human life when viewed from outside, in its cosmic context— overshadow all that we are able to experienc ...

92 humanizing the world fragments of an intelligible and defensible plan for cooperation. Conse- quently, they will be incapable ...

humanizing the world 93 of consciousness— forms part of the pro cess by which we complete ourselves, affi rming and developing o ...

94 humanizing the world It remains far from off ering a full- fl edged po liti cal and moral program. It does, however, describe ...

humanizing the world 95 However, such a metaphysical system risks being no more than a fairy tale, easy to devise and easy to re ...

96 humanizing the world conception of our duties to one another, has regularly given way to a quest for individual perfection, o ...

humanizing the world 97 ception with the physical tools of science. We can develop our under- standing of the relations among ph ...

98 humanizing the world scheme will transform the generic idea of society into a series of images of association: views of how t ...

humanizing the world 99 tions is to see and to treat the person— both one self and the other— as an end in itself rather than as ...

100 humanizing the world will take the form of a shared surrender to beliefs that lend a patina of naturalness, necessity, and a ...

humanizing the world 101 tations; a much more egalitarian and fl exible regime of cooperation might, and sometimes did, face the ...

102 humanizing the world higher meaning and value to a social division of labor with the charac- teristics that I have enumerate ...

humanizing the world 103 From this perspective, any attempt to ground the realm of human values in natural facts outside human l ...

104 humanizing the world the teacher to the student, the husband to the wife, the parent to the child, and, more generally, each ...

humanizing the world 105 relation, so precious to the ancient Romans, provides a characteristic example. It was in such a circum ...

106 humanizing the world our individual roles. Th e market economy itself can be represented as a form of simplifi ed cooperatio ...

humanizing the world 107 point of contrast between the religions and philosophies that exem- plify the three orientations to lif ...

108 humanizing the world Th e premise of this devotion is our ability to understand the experi- ence of others. Imagination— the ...

humanizing the world 109 mind with ideas about society and its reconstruction, they do justice to neither. Th ey then fail fully ...