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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... classic writings of Confucian critics who arouse popu- lar dissent and disaffection : In earlier times the empire ... Classic of Odes , the Classic of Documents and discourses of the hun- dred philosophers should take them to the local ...
... Classic age . While critical of the conduct of those who represent the established order , the critique is based on classic values , raising them to a still higher level . It remains in touch with the kinship values that persist into a ...
... Classic of Documents , 11 Classic of Odes , 11 Class struggle , 217 Codes of honor , 103 Codes of the military govern- ments , 99 Commonality , 127 , 128 Common good ( kôgi ) , 117 , 152 , 156 , 164-166 , 176 , 228 Communalism , 40 , 41 ...
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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