Nobility and CivilityHarvard University Press, 15. okt 2004 - 256 pages Globalization has become an inescapable fact of contemporary life. Some leaders, in both the East and the West, believe that human rights are culture-bound and that liberal democracy is essentially Western, inapplicable to the non-Western world. How can civilized life be preserved and issues of human rights and civil society be addressed if the material forces dominating world affairs are allowed to run blindly, uncontrolled by any cross-cultural consensus on how human values can be given effective expression and direction? |
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... Analects , he calls on the class of well - bred aristocrats known as shi in ancient China ( somewhat like the knights or gentlemen of the medieval West ) to put on the shining armor of moral virtue and public learning . It is said ...
... Analects such as this : " Lead them by means of regulations and keep order among them by punishments , and the people will evade them and lack any sense of shame . Lead them through virtue and the rites , and they will have a sense of ...
... Analects such as this : " Lead them by means of regulations and keep order among them by punishments , and the people will evade them and lack any sense of shame . Lead them through virtue and the rites , and they will have a sense of ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shōtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
Copyright | |
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