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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... Zhu Xi's original Community Compact , which had promoted such communitarian val- ues as the leadership responsibility of the local elite , con- sensual agreement among the members at village meetings ( the " compact " ) , popular moral ...
... Zhu Xi's Elementary Learning ( Xiaoxue dayi ) and other works of Zhu Xi's summarized by Xu in vernacular form for the Mongol emperor Khubilai . Fan's Extended Meaning , by contrast , had expanded on the Six Precepts in the same way as ...
... Zhu Xi's original , which empha- sized filial piety as the common human ground of public morality and said nothing about loyalty to the ruler . Muro's version is faithful to Zhu Xi . If he had wished to promote loyalty to the ruler , he ...
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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