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 Yukio , who was similarly attracted to Wang Yang- ming , his doctrine of the unity of knowledge and action , and the heroic idealism Wang both embodied and engen- dered . As Li Zehou put it : Characteristic of the school of Wang ...
... Mishima Yukio hyôron zenshû , 227–228 ( hereafter cited by page number in the text ) . 9. " The People Renewed " in Twentieth - Century China 1. See de Bary , Waiting for the Dawn . 2. de Bary et al . , eds . , SCT II , 289-291 ...
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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