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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... aesthetic culture accommodating to one another , but with Confucianism hardly to be seen in public For Kûkai's academy , however , this outcome could have been predicted from his own larger vision of the role to be played by Esoteric ...
... aesthetic . In thus serving the military leadership , as well as the surviving elite of the aesthetic culture patronized by the Muromachi court in Kyoto , Zen monks played an important role in what is known as the Higashiyama culture so ...
... aesthetic values were a significant component of this civil tradition . Moreover , the importance of ritual , again in both the classic and the later , more developed tradition , represented a sig- nificant balancing of the moral and ...
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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