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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... common bond and differentiated responsibilities to- ward one another . For instance , in the case of the parent / child relationship , the common bond was intimate affec- tion , and this could be expressed as caring for one another ...
... common humanity or in advancing the common good . For him this meant the minister or official's fidelity to principle in serving as men- tor to the ruler in public matters . How then would this translate into the feudal relationships ...
... common with that of any other , but instead pos- sesses its own peculiar coloration . We frequently see the like in ... common to them all . . . . The common spiri- tual basis which I discover in all constitutions is democ- racy , 12 For ...
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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