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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... Rennyo ( 1415–1499 ) , later head of the True Pure Land sect , the internalization and privatization of religious experience through personal faith and trust in Amida alone , and through exclusive practice devoted to one single object ...
... Rennyo demonstrates how exclusivity has become privatized beyond individual religious practice , to a sectarian privatization in the social sphere as well.12 As the court had become privatized and religion no longer plausibly served to ...
... Rennyo ( 1415-1499 ) , 105 Renunciation , 27 ; of duty , 32 ; of war , 200 ; world , 32 Renwang ( humane king ) , 57 Revolution , 211 Righteousness , 21 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 162 Righteousness Corps of the Di- vine Land , 192 Right man ...
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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