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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... concept of true nobility and genuine leadership was a high calling . He did not underestimate the demands it laid on the educated person or man of learn- ing who also bore the burden of leadership in society . In the Analects , he calls ...
... concept of social or political authority ( rank ) converged with a concept of the public good , with no discontinuity between the true nobility of the leader and the values of civil morality incumbent 6 Confucius ' Noble Person.
... concept of " Buddhism as Pro- tector of the State . " His conscious inclusion of Confucian studies , however , and his concept of the Noble Person as necessary to the fulfillment of the boddhisattva's salvific mission reveal his ...
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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