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Those working to articulate new assumptions for the study and practice of politics have found resonance in the insights of many physical and life scientists in the last century and a half. Their assumptions implicitly posed an alternative to the worldview that had dominated Western thinking since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. They set the stage not only for a new political paradigm, but also for a dialogue between Eastern and Western worldviews. Their worldview sets the backdrop for the paradigm proposed in the next chapter.
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Chapter Two “A Proper World View, Appropriate for Its Time”
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Saunders, H.H. (2005). A Proper World View, Appropriate for Its Time. In: Politics Is about Relationship. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403983411_3
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