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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... Ramayana speak to the same issues but in ways that , while critical of those who claim to represent the established social order of brahman and kshatriya , nevertheless attempt to fulfill tra- ditional values and rituals in a new way ...
... 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 is the model of ...
... Ramayana has survived in the native arts and traditional literature . Note , however , that this ideal of nobility in the Rama- yana is grounded in the emerging civility of the Indian tra- dition in the Classic age . While critical of ...
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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