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Forming a Global Community

by Joseph De Rivera , Harry A. Carson
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781648896156
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Vernon Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Vernon Press
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  • Pages: 258
  • Original Price: GBP 33.6
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 350 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

To address global problems such as pandemics, warming, economic inequality, mass migration, and widespread terrorism, Joseph de Rivera argues that we must form a global community. A community of eight billion humans is difficult to conceive. However, it can be imagined and created if we transform our understanding of who humans are and what 'community' entails. We can understand who persons are, how they are motivated, and how a community can be conceived in a way that offers an alternative to individualism and collectivism. The "mutualism" that is proposed provides a moral compass for navigating the challenges that confront us and encourages specific governing structures, political economies, and rituals that will further the formation of a global community.


Based on the philosophical analysis of John Macmurray, the author's argument relies on an extensive review of the current literature on self, personhood, emotional motivation, social identity, forms of community, and religious and secular rituals. Interdisciplinary in nature, it aims to direct philosophy and the social sciences to the challenges of globalism and the creation of a global community.


Carson, Harry A.: - Harry A. Carson is a retired Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Humanities and Contemporary CultureStudies at Sacred Heart College (Detroit, MI). A founding member of the International John Macmurray Society, he authored the Introduction to the 2004 edition of John Macmurray's 'Freedom in the Modern World'.

De Rivera, Joseph: - Joseph de Rivera (PhD. Stanford, 1961) is Professor Emeritus at Clark University. A founding member of the International Society for Research on Emotions and a fellow in three different divisions of the American Psychological Association, he taught at Dartmouth and NYU before coming to Clark and founding their Program in Peace and Conflict. The author or editor of six previous books, he is currently engaged in research on celebrations that promote global community.

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