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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... arts , entrepreneurs in the China trade , landscape architects , designers of tea houses — ev- erything from the military arts to the aesthetic . In thus serving the military leadership , as well as the surviving elite of the aesthetic ...
... arts and achieve merit in battle even without training himself in the Learning of the Mind . But because he will be lacking in vir- tue , he will get intoxicated with his physical prowess and find killing people enjoyable . He will thus ...
... arts are practiced . To pursue the underlying principles of the moral nature and correct one's conduct in accordance with the Way is the civilizing function of letters ; to control the mind - and- heart and discipline one's impetuosity ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shōtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
Copyright | |
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