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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... Mencius . On the one hand , he , like others of his time , recognized the need for a distinct , edu- cated leadership class , freed of manual labor so it could at- tend to the business of government . On the other hand , the ...
... ( Mencius 2A : 6 ) Mencius ' point is that the humane king , like all other humans , has " a heart that cannot endure [ the suffering of others ] ( bu ren ren zhi xin ) , " that naturally commiserates with the sufferings of others or the ...
... Mencius . Hence he could easily identify with the perfect wisdom of the Buddhist chakravartin , the wis- dom of emptiness , as the ground for the mysticization and ritualization of the Japanese imperial institution.5 Thus too he could ...
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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