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The Dignity of Difference; How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations
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Prologue1; Globalization and its Discontents2; The Dignity of Difference; Exorcizing Plato's Ghost3; Control; The Imperative of Responsibility4; Contribution; The Moral Case for the Market Economy5; Compassion; The Idea of Tzedakah6; Creativity; The Imperative of Education7; Cooperation; Civil Society and its Institutions8; Conservation; Environmental Sustainability9; Conciliation; The Power of a Word to Change the World10; A Covenant of HopeBibliography

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Author: Jonathan Sacks

The Dignity of Difference; How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations is a 21st-century work by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks that proposes how to reconcile hatred between civilizations and religions. A pioneering Jewish work on the ethics of globalization, it marks a paradigm shift in the approach to religious coexistence. Rabbi Sacks argues that people must do more than search for values common to all faiths; they must also reframe the way they see differences.

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