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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... Japan 4 The key figure in the literal defining , if not the actual shap- ing , of the civilizational issues in early Japan of the sixth and seventh centuries is generally considered to be Prince Shōtoku ( 573-621 ) , acting as Regent on ...
... Japan In Japan , even with the wide spread of Neo - Confucian- ism in the Tokugawa period , the community compact had much less success as an organization than in Korea - a fail- ure that has been explained as owing to an entrenched sys ...
... Japan had changed radically . Commodore Perry had opened Japan , the imperial restoration had taken place , and the Tokugawa shogunate was no more . Fukuzawa's reference to " the re- sponsibilities of citizens " reflects his awareness ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shōtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
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