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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... Emperor Meiji , though only a few scholars in recent times have been aware of its origins or the successive adaptations the Six Precepts had under- gone . In the Meiji version there is a strong emphasis on loyalty to the Emperor ...
... Emperor existed in the depths of its heart . . . . Insofar as this standpoint of Veneration of the Emperor embodies the absolute in the Japanese nation , it is far more concrete than the so - called world religions . But again , inso ...
... Emperor and a practice of bushidô understood as a feudal ethic strongly infused by Zen . Confucianism had little to ... Emperor in Japanese tradition loomed no less large than it did for Watsuji . Yoshino , however , aligned himself with ...
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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