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Can Asians Think? Understanding the Divide between East and West
Author: Kishore Mahbubani
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Can Asians think? Is Western civilization universal? Does the West promote human rights for altruistic reasons?
These are some questions Kishore Mahbubani has sought to answer in this volume of essays written over the past decade.
Contrary to the prevailing view in the West that the centuries-old dominance of Western civilization points to it being the only universal civilization, Can Asians Think? argues that Asia is now witnessing a major cultural rediscovery. Asian civilizations, by moving from Western models to those evolved from their own rich heritage, are beginning to contribute to the development and growth of mankind in the measure that one one would expect from there large and diverse continent. Mahbubani, hailed as 'an Asian Toynbee' and 'the Max Weber of the new Confucian ethic', continues to illuminate his central arguments, in this revised and updated edition, adding two new essays on power, responsibility and the United Nations.
Edition: Paperback
Format: Demy | 272 pages
Classification: Non Fiction
About the author Kishore Mahbubani is both a career diplomat and a writer/scholar. He has travelled extensively around the world, participated in many seminars and conferences and has had two tours of duty at the United Nations. He was awarded the President's Scholarship in 1967. He was a fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University in 199192. Mahbubani has been in the Singapore Foreign Service since 1971. He served as the Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Ministry from 1993 to 1998. Mahbubani is currently serving as Singapore's ambassador to the United Nations, New York and concurrently, as Singapore's High Commissioner to Canada.
Can Asians think? Is Western civilization universal? Does the West promote human rights for altruistic reasons?
These are some questions Kishore Mahbubani has sought to answer in this volume of essays written over the past decade.
Contrary to the prevailing view in the West that the centuries-old dominance of Western civilization points to it being the only universal civilization, Can Asians Think? argues that Asia is now witnessing a major cultural rediscovery. Asian civilizations, by moving from Western models to those evolved from their own rich heritage, are beginning to contribute to the development and growth of mankind in the measure that one one would expect from there large and diverse continent. Mahbubani, hailed as 'an Asian Toynbee' and 'the Max Weber of the new Confucian ethic', continues to illuminate his central arguments, in this revised and updated edition, adding two new essays on power, responsibility and the United Nations.
Edition: Paperback
Format: Demy | 272 pages
Classification: Non Fiction
About the author Kishore Mahbubani is both a career diplomat and a writer/scholar. He has travelled extensively around the world, participated in many seminars and conferences and has had two tours of duty at the United Nations. He was awarded the President's Scholarship in 1967. He was a fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University in 199192. Mahbubani has been in the Singapore Foreign Service since 1971. He served as the Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Ministry from 1993 to 1998. Mahbubani is currently serving as Singapore's ambassador to the United Nations, New York and concurrently, as Singapore's High Commissioner to Canada.
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