Intimacy or Integrity: Philosophy and Cultural DifferenceHow can I know something? How can I convince someone of the rightness of my position? How does reality function? What is artistic creativity? What is the role of the state? It is well known that people from various cultures give dissimilar answers to such philosophical questions. After three decades in the cross-cultural study of ideas and values, Thomas Kasulis found that culture influences not only the answers to these questions, but often how one arrives at the answers. In generalizing cultural difference, Kasulis identifies two kinds of orientation: intimacy and integrity. Both determine how we think about relations among people and among things, and each is reasonable, effective, and consistent. Yet the two are so incompatible in their basic assumptions that they cannot successfully engage each other. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Cultural Orientations | 13 |
What Is Intimacy? | 27 |
What Is Integrity? | 53 |
Intimacy and Integrity as Worldviews Epistemology Analysis and Argument and Metaphysics | 71 |
The Normative Dimensions of Intimacy and Integrity Aesthetics Ethics and Politics | 105 |
Intercultural Conflict When Intimacy and Integrity Collide | 133 |
AN INTIMATE BIBLIOGRAPHY | 161 |
INDEX | 179 |
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Intimacy or Integrity: Philosophy and Cultural Difference Thomas P. Kasulis No preview available - 2002 |