1st Edition
Maxima Moralia Meditations on the Otherness of the Other
Introduction
1 Age of Mediocrity
2 The Power of Agape
3 The Art of Maturity
4 Paideia and Epistemic Humility
5 The Otherness of the Other
6 The Silence of Wisdom
7 An Examined Civilization
8 The Nobility of Spirit
9 Empathy and Conquest
10 An Ontology of Fragility
11 The Meaning of Life
12 The Solitude of Nonviolence
Index
Biography
Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian–Canadian philosopher. He is presently the executive director of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence and Peace Studies and the vice-dean of the School of Law at Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India. He is the winner of the Peace Prize from the United Nations Association in Spain (2009) for his extensive academic work in promoting dialogue among cultures and his advocacy for nonviolence. More recently, he is the winner of the Josep Palau i Fabre International Essay Prize. Some of his most recent publications are Gadflies in the Public Space (2016), The Decline of Civilization (2017), Letters to a Young Philosopher (2017), On Forgiveness and Revenge (2017) and The Global Gandhi: Essays in Comparative Political Philosophy (2018).
