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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... Mahayana Buddhism , but the main point he makes in the body of the tract is the starting point - the need to be emancipated from the secular world as a condition for achieving spiritual liberation — without which one cannot be of much ...
... Mahayana Buddhism from the realm of pub- lic discourse and open , rational debate , in favor of a variety of expedient or convenient means , many of them more ap- pealing to the senses and even to the passions , as in the saying " the ...
... Mahayana and the many concessions made through the practice of expedient means — in Japan more artful than moral . Sometimes in the Tale , it is true , Genji is spoken of as greatly burdened by his past sins , and it is also true that ...
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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