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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... civil society . For this purpose they resurrected and greatly strengthened the civil service , and they promoted the kind of scholarship that would be useful in civil administration . The encyclopedic Imperial Conspectus of Great Peace ...
... civil society , and civil discourse as inseparable from the Confucian Way . This general view underlay a wide range of political , so- cial , and economic reforms advocated or undertaken by Song Confucian leaders in the eleventh and ...
... civil authority through its ordering of ritual . In this respect it was performing a characteristi- cally Confucian civil function , and one that would normally have been associated with the Imperial Court and its " civil " nobility ...
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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