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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Wm. Theodore de Bary, William Theodore De Bary. influenced by Neo - Confucian culture . What remains to be seen in the Japanese case , however , is the outcome with re- gard to the ideal of the Confucian Noble Man as under- stood on the ...
... Neo - Confucian reformers to reject the anodyne and amoral influence of Buddhism in order to press for radical political change . Thus it is sig- nificant that Shônan , at this time , was also impressed by the strong moral stance and ...
... Neo - Confucianism under Satô Issai at the shogunal school , the Shôheikô . Satô reflected the late Tokugawa trend ... Confucian training , Nakamura saw many correspondences between Confucian tradition and the modern Western values he ...
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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