Cosmopolitan Civility: Global-Local Reflections with Fred Dallmayr

Contents
Editor’s Introduction
	Notes
Chapter 1 Philosophy of Hope
	In Dialogue with Heidegger’s Legacy
	Event of Being
	Intercultural Philosophical Dialogue: Theory and Practice
	Recovering Humanity’s Wholeness
	Cosmopolis and New Horizons
	Notes
Chapter 2 Fred Dallmayr’s Spiritual Cosmopolitanism
	Preliminary Considerations
		Sources of Inspiration
		Choosing the Road of Spiritual Cosmopolitanism
		A Concluding Comment
	Notes
Chapter 3 Anticipating Ethical Democracy in East Asia: Engaging with Fred Dallmayr
	Beyond Dualism
	Democracy to Come
	Confucian Meritocracy
	Maximalist Confucianism
	Meritocratic Comprehensive Confucianism
	Meritocratic Political Confucianism
	A Democracy to Come in East Asia
	Notes
Chapter 4 Toward a Mega-Humanism: Confucian Triadic Harmony for the Anthropocene
	Notes
Chapter 5 The Problem of Secularism: Rawls, Taylor, and Dallmayr
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	II
	III
	Notes
Chapter 6 Between Berlin and Konigsberg: Toward a Global Community of Well-Disposed Human Beings
	Relational Institutions
	Contractual Approaches to Morality
	Solidarity and the Ethical Community
	Notes
Chapter 7 Learning and Scholarship: Unearthing the Roots of Humanism and Cosmopolitanism in the Islamic Milieu
	Classical Centers of Learning
	Organization and Curricula of Madrasas: The Parameters of Religious Education
	The Rise of Humanism and Paidea
	The “Ancients” as a Source of Learning and Wisdom
	Humanistic studies (Adab)
	Looking Ahead: Making the Case for Liberal Religious Education in the Islamic Milieu
	Notes
Chapter 8 Where to Explore the Political in Islamic Political Thought
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	II
	III
	IV
	Notes
Chapter 9 “Docta Ignorantia” and “Hishiryo”: “The Inexpressible” in Cusanus, Dōgen, and Nishida
	Nicholas of Cusa
		I. The Illumination of “Docta Ignorantia”
		II. The Core Insight of “Docta Ignorantia” and “Coincidentia Oppositorum”
		III. On the Delimited Parameter of Intellectual Comprehension
		IV. The Spirituality of Docta Ignorantia
		V. “Docta Ignorantia,” the “Horizon” of Consciousness, and the “Infinite Sphere”
	Dōgen
		I. On Zazen (Seated Meditation) and “Hishiryo”
			Interpretation I: A Cautious View of Thinking in Arriving at Satori
			Interpretation 2: The Gradational States of Consciousness
			Interpretation 3: “Perspectival” or Aspectual Reality of “Thinking”
		II. Zazen as “Dropping Off the Mind and the Body”
		III. “Shiryo,” “Fushiryo,” and “Hishiryo”
	Nishida Kitarō on the Source of Infinite Creativity
	Notes
Chapter 10 Paradigms of the Perfect Human and the Possibility of a Global Ethos
	India
	China
	Islam
	Eastern Individualisms
	A Global Ethos?
	Notes
Chapter 11 Upholding Our World and Regenerating Our Earth: Calling for a Planetary Lokasamgraha
	Introduction
	Upholding Our World: Dharma, Sahadharma, and the Calling of an Integral Pursurartha
	Integral Development and a New Spiritual Pragmatism of Language, Self, and Society
	Regenerating Our Earth
	Lokasamgraha
	Lokasamgraha: With and Beyond Cosmopolitanism
	Notes
Chapter 12 Philosophy and the Colonial Difference Revisited
	Notes
Chapter 13 Dallmayr’s Reply to Contributors
	Notes
Contributors
	Ruth Abbey
	Asma Afsaruddin
	Ronald Beiner
	Edward V. Demenchonok
	Richard Falk
	Ananta Kumar Giri
	Sungmoon Kim
	Chenyang Li
	Walter Mignolo
	Herta Nagl-Docekal
	Ahmet Okumuş
	Marietta Stepanyants
	Michiko Yusa
Index