Responsibility and Commitment
Eighteen Essays in Honor of Gerhold K. Becker

Edited by Tze-wan Kwan

Table of Contents
Introduction (Tze-wan Kwan)

ETHICS  AND  PERSONHOOD
Georges Enderle
Rediscovering the Golden Rule for a Globalizing World
Jing-bao Nie
Exploring the Core of Humanity:
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Concept of Personhood
Elizabeth Telfer
Responsibility and Humor
Maureen Sie
Intrapersonal Ascriptions of Responsibility

THEOLOGY  AND  RELIGION
Robert Gascoigne
Human Dignity within Secularity,
in the Light of a Theology of Church and Kingdom
Reiner Wimmer
Categorial Analysis of Religions:
A Step on the Way toward Interreligious Peace*
Michael Sievernich
The Globalization of Responsibility:
Marginal  Notes on Ethics and Religion*
Peter Neuner
Ecumenical Commitment:
Reflections on the State of the Ecumenical Movement*
Peter Fumiaki Momose
The Responsibility of the Christian Faith in Today’s Religious Pluralism:
The Theology of Karl Rahner in an Asian Context*

PHILOSOPHY  AND  PHILOLOGY
Chan-fai Cheung
Boredom and the Beginning of Philosophy
Kajornpat Tangyin
Reading Levinas on Ethical Responsibility
Kwok-ying Lau
Non-Familiarity and Otherness:
Derrida’s Hermeneutics of Friedship and its Political Implications
Rudolf Post
Verantwortung (Responsibility) and Verbindlichkeit (Commitment) in German:
A Study of Lexical History and Semantic Change*
Tze-wan Kwan
Kant’s Possible Contribution to Natural Law Debates

EAST  MEETS  WEST
Daryl Koehn
Dignity in Western vs. Chinese Culture:
Theoretical Overview and Practical Illustrations
Ole Döring
The Possible Role of Religion in Secular Bioethics:
Reflections on the Case of China
Eva Kit-wah Man
Some Reflections on Cultural Policy Addresses and Women’s Rights in Hong Kong
Stephan Rothlin
Training Students in Responsibility and Social Commitment:
Fragments of a Concept for an “Oriental University”


Index of Names
The Contributors
Gerhold K. Becker: A Bio-bibliography
* translated from the German
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