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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... Six Precepts reached Japan in the form of a vernacular commentary on the Six Precepts ( Liu yü yan yi ) by a late Ming scholar , Fan Hong , and came by a somewhat circuitous and unlikely route , having been for- warded through the King ...
... Six Precepts ( Rikuyu engi taigi ) was not simply a trans- lation of Fan Hong's work , but rather a digest in the same genre as Xu Heng's digest of Zhu Xi's Elementary Learning ( Xiaoxue dayi ) and other works of Zhu Xi's summarized by ...
... Six Precepts in this form is evi- denced not only by their promulgation by local officials , but also , indirectly , by their appearing in the House Code of the Okaya House ( 1836 ) 4 as the basis for the lectures of Hosoi Heishû ( 1728 ...
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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