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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... century Japan . This influence is further reflected in their incorporation into the famous Im- perial Rescript on Education of the Emperor Meiji ( 1890 ) . As so often happened when appropriated for Imperial pur- poses , the Six ...
... Century China A representative figure in early twentieth - century China who dealt with the question of Confucian values as related to citizenship in a modern nation was Liang Qichao ( 1873- 1929 ) , a leading scholar , publicist , and ...
... century or some twentieth - century political ideology , but rather a longer- term view that is informed by a perennial humanistic tradi- tion - more like what the classicist Gilbert Murray called " liberality , " a virtue of the ...
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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