“We men of the Western Culture are, with our historical sense, an exception and not a rule. World-history is our world picture and not all mankind’s.” (p. 15) This could be taken in a parochial sense..
I think I world in a parochial sense and do so because of sense of big history in my sense of self. To world is to self by other means. And vice versa.
"(of which I have since lost track, and I have not been able to find it again despite my attempts) "
this happened today to a post I read yesterday (I'm blaming an upgrade for the lack of it in my browser history) something about USA academics being more obstreperous than outside USA
Comment two:
“We men of the Western Culture are, with our historical sense, an exception and not a rule. World-history is our world picture and not all mankind’s.” (p. 15) This could be taken in a parochial sense..
I think I world in a parochial sense and do so because of sense of big history in my sense of self. To world is to self by other means. And vice versa.
Hence, “He who saves a single life, saves the world entire.” And its unspoken corollary, “He who ends a single life, ends the world entire.”
Comment one:
"(of which I have since lost track, and I have not been able to find it again despite my attempts) "
this happened today to a post I read yesterday (I'm blaming an upgrade for the lack of it in my browser history) something about USA academics being more obstreperous than outside USA