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Think No Evil - Korean Values in the Age of Globalization (Hardcover)
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Think No Evil - Korean Values in the Age of Globalization (Hardcover)
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In this investigation of the contemporary notion of evil, C. Fred
Alford asks what we can learn about this concept, and about
ourselves, by examining a society where it is unknown where
language contains no word that equates to the English term "evil."
Does such a society look upon human nature more benignly? Do its
members view the world through rose-colored glasses? Korea offers a
fascinating starting point, and Alford begins his search for
answers there.In conversations with hundreds of Koreans from
diverse religions and walks of life students, politicians,
teachers, Buddhist monks, Confucian scholars, Catholic priests,
housewives, psychiatrists, and farmers Alford found remarkable
agreement about the nonexistence of evil. Koreans regard evil not
as a moral category but as an intellectual one, the result of
erroneous Western thinking. For them, evil results from the
creation of dualisms, oppositions between people and ideas.Alford's
interviews often led to discussions about imported ways of thinking
and the impact of globalization upon society at large. In
particular, he was struck by how Koreans' responses to
globalization matched Westerners' views about evil. In much of the
world, he argues, globalization is the ultimate dualism attractive
for the enlightenment and freedom it brings, terrifying for the
great social and personal upheaval it can cause."
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