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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Wm. Theodore de Bary, William Theodore De Bary. community schools and community compacts . But when he ran into ... compact he folded in with Zhu Xi's proclamation to the people on the essentials of civil conduct or public morality . His ...
... community compact were what might be called " family val- ues , " namely love for parents and siblings , the majority of the provisions went beyond family to deal with commu- nity relations , and the community compact meetings were ...
... compact " ( xiangyue ) . . . . But the community com- pact referred to here is not the community compact pro- moted in the Ming and Qing dynasties by the government using political force , rather it refers to the community com- pact ...
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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