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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... Wang Yangming , whose career went from youth- ful nonconformism to a brilliant ( but nonetheless tragic ) career as statesman , general , and teacher . Briefly put , Wang reconceived the task of achieving sage status in the midst of ...
... Wang Yangming school . What Li has to say about this reveals a striking similarity to the case of Mishima Yukio , who was similarly attracted to Wang Yang- ming , his doctrine of the unity of knowledge and action , and the heroic idealism ...
... wang ) , Kings of Illumination , 60 Village lectures , 145 Vimalakirti , 48 , 52 , 75 Vimalakirti Sutra , 47 Vinaya , 45 , 74 Wang Yangming , 140 , 142 , 145 , 212 Warrior class ( kshatriya ) , 15 , 18 , 27 , 33 , 96 , 102 Washington ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shōtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
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