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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... basis herein , and thus they form the basis of the doc- trine.1 No doubt it was a similar respect for established custom in civilized society that had led Buddhists in India and other South Asian countries to leave the established ...
... basis for the political structure a peculiar national morality of our own , attempting in this way to avoid ... basis common to them all . . . . The common spiri- tual basis which I discover in all constitutions is democ- racy , 12 For ...
... basis of traditional consensus - build- ing mechanisms , with their own implicit understandings and " feel " for consensus , they were also subject to pres- sures of the moment and changes of popular mood - not the principled basis for ...
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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