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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... Yoshino Sa- kuzô , whose views on constitutionalism ( cited in Chapter 1 ) are the touchstone in this discussion , the position of the Emperor in Japanese tradition loomed no less large than it did for Watsuji . Yoshino , however ...
... Yoshino's Christian sense of humanitarianism and dedication , and the samurai's sense of personal com- mitment along with the Confucian conviction of a high calling to public service . But Yoshino clearly saw this as a vocation to ...
... Yoshino's , based on two main political parties with stable allegiances . Coalitions negotiated among factions proved to be the rule , and while these operated on the basis of traditional consensus - build- ing mechanisms , with their ...
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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