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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... Asian ideals of leadership and the common good / Wm . Theodore de Bary . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-674-01557-6 ( alk . paper ) 1. Leadership Asia - History . 2. Civil society - Asia - History . 3 ...
... Asian ideals discussed here are thus seen as conflicted human values , conflicted in the same sense as in my earlier book , The Trouble with Confucianism . This book , which ranges widely over several civilizations and historical eras ...
... Asia . The story starts , however , with what may seem to be a historical accident . In the East Asian maritime trade of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was not unusual for books to cir- culate on the sea lanes among China ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shôtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
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