1 Culture or Cultures?
â1.1 âCultureâ in Singular and Plural Form
â1.2 Cultural Identity
â1.3 The Effects of the Meeting of Cultures
â1.4 Intercultural Relations
ââ1.4.1 The War of Cultures
ââ1.4.2 Isolation
ââ1.4.3 Assimilation
ââ1.4.4 Integration
2 The European Model of Cultural Diversity
â2.1 European Identity versus National Identity
â2.2 The Rights of Nations
â2.3 Integration of Nations around a Common âCore of Cultureâ
âPART 2 The Guiding Ideas in the History of European Thought
3 Logos: The Greek type of Rationality in European Culture
â3.1 From Myth to logos: Circumstances Conducive to the Emergence of the Greek Type of Rationality
â3.2 A Disinterestedness of Cognition
â3.3 Chaos or Cosmos? The Beginnings of Empirical Sciences
â3.4 The Universality of Reason
â3.5 A Return to the Pre-Socratic Era
4 Ethos: Ethical Traditions of Greece in European Culture
â4.1 Before the Birth of Conscience
â4.2 The Socratic Revolution: A Turn towards the Soul
â4.3 Sovereignty of Conscience
â4.4 Reason and Will in Ethics
â4.5 Virtue
â4.6 What Next with Ethics?
5 Nomos: Law in the European Tradition
â5.1 Themis and Dike
â5.2 The First Codifications
ââ5.2.1 Athens...
ââ5.2.2 ... and Rome
â5.3 Natural Law
ââ5.3.1 Relation between the Nomos and the Physis
ââ5.3.2 Aristotle
ââ5.3.3 Cicero and Roman Jurists
ââ5.3.4 St. Thomas Aquinas
ââ5.3.5 The Tragedy of Legal Positivism
6 Deus: Between Religious Monotheism and Denominational Pluralism
â6.1 Christianity and the Desacralization of the World
â6.2 Autonomy of the State and the Church
â6.3 Political Monism and the Birth of Total Politics
â6.4 Tolerance and Religious Freedom
â6.5 A Digression: Modern Problems with Tolerance
7 Persona: Between Humanism and Personalism
â7.1 The Biblical Account of the Creation of Man
â7.2 Framing the Issue of the Person on Philosophical and Theological Grounds
ââ7.2.1 The Meaning of the Term Persona in Pre-Christian Antiquity
ââ7.2.2 The Use of the Term Persona in Christian Theology
ââ7.2.3 God as Person: The Dispute over the Trinity Versus Human Self-Understanding
ââ7.2.4 Classical Approaches to the Issue of âPersonâ
â7.3 Who Is Man after Descartes?
8 Societas: From Person as the Subject to Society as the Subject
â8.1 Manâs Social Dimension
â8.2 Sovereignty of the Person
â8.3 Sovereignty of Society
â8.4 Sovereignty of the Nation-State
ââ8.4.1 Jean Bodin
ââ8.4.2 Thomas Hobbes
ââ8.4.3 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ââ8.4.4 Carl Schmitt
ââ8.4.5 Jean Maritain
ââ8.4.6 Sovereignty in International Law
â8.5 Some Contemporary Challenges
â8.6 An Accidental Empire