Dialogue in Universalism and Universalism in Dialogue

• Authors: Allinson Robert Elliott
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, I endeavor to penetrate to the heart of Janusz Kuczynski’s writings about his concept of universalism and to offer my own deliberations upon it based upon my previous writings concerning universalism and dialogue and on my considerations of necessary conditions for the possibility of universal dialogue taking place. To this end, I posit ten conditions for the possibility of entering into genuine universal dialogue. For clarification of Kuczynski’s concept of universalism, I analyze his concept into meta-universalism (M-Universalism) and holistic universalism (W-Universalism). I also discuss the important role of complementarity in the selection of the content of both types of universalism. Finally, I discuss how the phenomenological epoché can be employed to choose the basic values that constitute the shared values of universalism. In so doing, I make reference to Chinese philosophy to illustrate the universality of ethical values.

Keywords

EN

humanistic universalism; dialogue; duty; right; complementarity; phenomenological epoché; Leibniz; Hegel; Confucius; Mencius; dialectic; Yin and Yang

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 19-33

Contributors

author

Allinson Robert Elliott

• Soka University of America, 1 University Drive, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656, USA.