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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... West that the Meiji en- lightenment became strongly identified . Of this western- ized view Fukuzawa Yukichi was a prime exponent in the 1870s . In his Outline of a Theory of Civilization ( 1875 ) articu- lating a new progressive and ...
... Western ideas in Meiji Japan . No doubt still influenced by his early Neo - Confucian training , Nakamura saw many ... West values that can be taken as long - term tendencies predis- posing him both to accept new ideas and to see 172 ...
... West . In discussing similarities and differences among things , each is a distinct case . In comparing them , there is the objective of acknowledging the points they have in com- mon - for example , when one says that even though men ...
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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