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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... Confucius ' time and Yoshino's in the shi's transi- tion from a military to a more civil function . But Yoshino is talking about a new citizenship ; Confucius is not . The phi- losopher's ideal of the Noble Person may be an inspiration ...
... Confucius ' char- acterization of " virtue and the rites " as the consensual elements of a civilized order . This traditional social ritual , proper to the shi class , was a vestige of the refined culture ( wen ) Confucius identified ...
... Confucian As- sociation to promote scholarly discussion of the subject , and traditional observances of rituals like the celebration of Confucius ' birthday . Nothing of this sort is likely to have any general effect on the Chinese ...
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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