Titre :	The reconstruction of humanity
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Sorokin, Pitirim Aleksandrovich, Auteur
Editeur :	Boston : Beacon Press
Année de publication :	c1948
Importance :	xii, 247 p.
Format :	24 cm.
Note générale :	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	Altruism Civilization Egoism Peace Progress Sociology
Mots-clés :	Humanity
Index. décimale :	HM 101
Résumé :	An outline of what must be changed in the existing order before a new creative and peaceful world can be built.
Note de contenu :	Prologue : the eternal quest continues -- Quack cures for war and impotent plans for peace. Political cures ; Economic cures and plans ; Scientific, educational, religious, and other cures and plans -- Insufficient factors of altruism. Altruism : its forms, gradations, and creativity ; Insufficient factors of altruism -- Cultural factors of altruism and egoism. Two basic principles ; What needs to be changed in contemporary culture--and why ; What is pathological in the main compartments of our culture -- Social factors of altruism and egoism. What must be changed in all social institutions--and why ; What must be changed in the family, school, and religious institutions--and why ; What must be changed in our political, economic, and other institutions--and why -- Personal factors of creative altruism. Our incompetence in effecting the transformation of man ; Three remedies ; Methods and techniques of the great masters of altruism -- ways of realization of the plan. How the proposed change is to be achieved.

The reconstruction of humanity [texte imprimé] / Sorokin, Pitirim Aleksandrovich, Auteur . - Boston : Beacon Press, c1948 . - xii, 247 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	Altruism Civilization Egoism Peace Progress Sociology
Mots-clés :	Humanity
Index. décimale :	HM 101
Résumé :	An outline of what must be changed in the existing order before a new creative and peaceful world can be built.
Note de contenu :	Prologue : the eternal quest continues -- Quack cures for war and impotent plans for peace. Political cures ; Economic cures and plans ; Scientific, educational, religious, and other cures and plans -- Insufficient factors of altruism. Altruism : its forms, gradations, and creativity ; Insufficient factors of altruism -- Cultural factors of altruism and egoism. Two basic principles ; What needs to be changed in contemporary culture--and why ; What is pathological in the main compartments of our culture -- Social factors of altruism and egoism. What must be changed in all social institutions--and why ; What must be changed in the family, school, and religious institutions--and why ; What must be changed in our political, economic, and other institutions--and why -- Personal factors of creative altruism. Our incompetence in effecting the transformation of man ; Three remedies ; Methods and techniques of the great masters of altruism -- ways of realization of the plan. How the proposed change is to be achieved.