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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... claim is made for the spiritual autonomy of the layman . Rather , the claim is for a special immunity to be granted to those who dedicate themselves to the attainment of the higher religious goal . Eventually , as Hui - yuan goes on to ...
... claiming to speak for the general good and to legitimize their own power after the default of the old Imperial Court , whose vestigial claim to authority , still for- mally acknowledged , rested mainly on its residual cultural prestige ...
... claim to higher authority and loyalty , as if it repre- sented public order . In this particular case the issue arose over an alleged in- sult to the honor of one lord by another representing the shogunate in ritual matters . We recall ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shôtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
Copyright | |
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