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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... Ieyasu's recourse to legislation in the form and genre of the medieval house laws , enacting regu- lations to ensure against any ... Ieyasu ] , Ieyasu raised a fundamental question concerning legitimacy 114 Chrysanthemum and Sword Revisited.
Wm. Theodore de Bary, William Theodore De Bary. Ieyasu ] , Ieyasu raised a fundamental question concerning legitimacy , including whether there is such a thing as right and wrong — a question Shôtoku had already raised in his ...
... Ieyasu proposes a relativistic standard of good and evil , citing the Madhyamika Buddhist doctrine that the Middle Way of Supreme Wisdom lies in adhering to neither good nor evil . Razan responds that the Confucian Mean , in contrast to ...
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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