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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... people cannot stand . " ( Analects 12 : 7 ) The Chinese word xin , translated here as " confidence , " can also be ... Noble Person may be an inspiration to the common man , but it was not to be expected that the " people " would ...
... person - what Confucians would call the Noble Person - and upholds true nobility ac- cording to the Confucian ideal ; he then proceeds to qualify the more idealistic and optimistic expectation of the Con- fucians by citing the rarity of ...
... nobility and civility embodied in the Confucian “ noble person . ” As late as the ninth century the idea persisted that study of the Confu- cian classics was an important adjunct to the preparation even of Buddhist monks , because these ...
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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