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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... China , the state ( ruler ) came to serve as the monitor of religious discipline in tem- ples , monasteries , and nunneries , and the establishment of superintendencies over Buddhist sects in Japan ( as in China ) made the latter ...
... China A representative figure in early twentieth - century China who dealt with the question of Confucian values as related to citizenship in a modern nation was Liang Qichao ( 1873- 1929 ) , a leading scholar , publicist , and activist ...
... China's idea of ethics . It is as if , to the five relationships of parent- child , ruler - minister , husband - wife , elder brother - younger brother , friends - and - friends , there were added a relation- ship of group toward member ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shôtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
Copyright | |
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