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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... Japanese writers . The latter generally put ruler / minister ( understood as " lord / vas- sal " ) ahead of parent / child , and loyalty to the lord ahead of filial piety as the prime virtue . Not only did this occur in formal ...
... Japanese Emperor ( sonnô ) but merely that of venerating one's lord ( son'ô ) .... The Way of Veneration of the Emperor had in fact been an unbroken thread of thought from the very beginning of Japanese history , taking root deeply in ...
... Japanese arts and literature have quietly asserted themselves in a manner that contrasts with the rather nondescript , lacklus- ter style of Japanese politics . Yet Japan has not played as prominent a role in interna- tional affairs as ...
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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