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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... Qing dynasty , with an increasingly authoritarian tone and content , emphasizing loyalty to the throne and obedience to the authorities . The standard Qing vision be- came definitive in the reign of the Yongzheng emperor ( r . 1723-1735 ) ...
... Qing dynasty thinkers 99 who stressed the need for institutional or systemic reform if "The People Renewed" Twentieth-Century China.
... Qing dynasties by the government using political force , rather it refers to the community com- pact launched in the beginning by villagers themselves at the outset in the Song dynasty . . . . In the practice of the community compact ...
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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