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22 The religious phenomenology of Mircea Eliade interprets the meanings of “concern for others’ well-being” born of “love and compassion, patience,^ tolerance, forgiveness,^ harmony”) as articulated by the Dalai Lama in (New York: Riverhead, 1999), pp. 22–3.contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of Ethics for the New Millennium^
myths and symbols to display the universal archetypes of whom “living as a human being is in itself a religious act ... to be – or, rather, to become – a man means to be ‘religious’.” Eliade, point could be made by reference to any number of thinkers, such as Gerardus Van der Leeuw, Carl Jung, and others. The Questhomo religiosus, preface. The , for
22 Hermann Hesse, 23 Kwame Anthony Appiah, Suhrkamp, 1986).W. W. Norton, 2006).Die Einheit hinter den GegensätzenCosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Frankfurt am Main: (New York:

1 See Immanuel Kant, Thomas K. Abbott, intro. Marvin Fox (New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1949); “The Westminster Shorter Catechism,” in Chapter 2 The Humanist ImaginationFundamental Principle of the Metaphysics of MoralsThe Creeds of Christendom, ed. Philip , trans.

2 John W. de Gruchy, Schaff, vol. 3 (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1983); Thomas Aquinas, Summa TheologiaeEmmanuel Levinas, Press, 2006). , 5 vols. (Westminster: Christian Classics, 1981). Also see Entre nousConfessions of a Christian Humanist (Paris: Grasset, 1991). (Minneapolis: Fortress
3 Jonathan Glover, 4 For a brief study, see Kate Soper, Open Court, 1986).Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000) and Charles T. Mathewes, Augustinian TraditionHumanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).Humanism and Anti-Humanism (La Salle, IL: Evil and the (New
5 See 7 Corliss Lamont, 6 For the place of metaphor in humanism, see Ernesto Grassi, the Dignity of ManThe Humanist TraditionTwo Views of Man: Pope Innocent III, On Human Misery, Giannozzo Manetti, On The Philosophy of Humanism, trans. B. Murchland (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1966). (University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, 1980). (New York: Continuum, 1990), p. 3.Rhetoric as Philosophy:
10 Todorov, 11 Edward W. Said, 9 Lamont,^8 Humanist Manifestos I and IIUniversity Press, 2004), p. 22.The Philosophy of HumanismImperfect GardenHumanism and Democratic Criticism, p. 5. (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1973), p. 16., pp. 50–1. (New York: Columbia
12 Versényi, Socratic Humanism, p. 131.

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