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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... Heaven , but ideally , too , the nobility of Heaven was represented by moral values that any man could emulate . This convergence of the two sets of values is also indi- cated in Mencius ' ideal of the local community as modeled by the ...
... Heaven's love for the people is very great . Would it then allow one man to preside over them in an arrogant and will- ful manner , indulging his excesses and casting aside the nature Heaven and Earth allotted them ? Surely it would not ...
... Heaven and " all - under - Heaven " ) which became the standard of claimed legitimacy for any who sought to exercise authority ( that is , those who tried to justify their exercise of power , won by whatever means ) . Given the ...
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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