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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... Mishima Yukio ( 1925–1970 ) . A brilliant novelist and dramatist whose works won interna- tional acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s , Mishima thought of himself as an example of a Japanese tradition that com- bined a refined aesthetic ...
... Mishima can proceed to speak of an elevated , mysticized Emperor as a " theocrat " exercising his right even to create anarchy , " holding out his hand to disorder . " On such grounds he can acclaim the individual's challenge , in the ...
... Mishima , if one were truly looking for a “ Last Samurai , " it would be he . The effect of his samurai - style grandstanding has been virtually nil . Consensus politics has continued to prevail . Even the 1947 constitution , widely ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shôtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
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