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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... achieve success . Moreover , a woman is subject to the five obstacles . First , she cannot become a Brahma heav- enly king . Second , she cannot become the king Shakra . Third , she cannot become a devil king . Fourth , she cannot ...
... achieve the perfection of sagehood , women as well as men . This justified her following her mentor the Empress Ma ... achieving sage status in the midst of official involvement ( or indeed in any real - life situ- ation ) by affirming ...
... achieving synthesis . In such a discussion , however , there are times when one must also compare and analyze , and one ... achieve- ment .... Moral virtue inheres in people naturally . It is a natural endowment from Heaven . From this ...
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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