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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... Rama is sent into exile while his brother is enthroned as king . No one , not even the brother , is in favor of this , but Rama accepts it , despite repeated entreaties from all sides , including Bharata , that Rama claim his rightful ...
... Rama's act of self - renunciation . This is not renunciation of the world in the manner of the Buddha Shakyamuni , who gave up king- ship as offering no remedy to the problem of human suffer- ing and illusion . Rama eventually , after ...
... Rama celebrated in the Ramayana , which include the tra- ditional ideals of the righteous warrior in battle , the dutiful son , loving husband , loyal brother , and so on , but if , at the outset of his work , Valmiki suggests that Rama ...
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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