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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... Chinese hero Coxinga with the help of a Chinese minister , who demonstrates his loyalty by deliberately sacrificing his own infant son to save the life of the newborn heir to the Chi- nese throne . Although Chikamatsu makes a great show ...
... Chinese , a time caught in contradiction on either side , coming and going . That is to say , on the one hand the Chinese lack group orga- nization , and at the same time they lack the establishment of individual liberty and equality ...
... Chinese content for a Chinese socialism . Thus it has sanctioned a Confucian As- sociation to promote scholarly discussion of the subject , and traditional observances of rituals like the celebration of Confucius ' birthday . Nothing of ...
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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