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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... contrast and tension between Shôtoku's insistence on the supremacy of imperial authority and the difficulty of fixing the truth as the ground of this authority . Thus , on the one hand , he says , " The sovereign is the master of the ...
... contrast , the monk Nichiren ( 1227- 1282 ) , intolerant of any but his own belief , severely criti- cized the Pure Land and Zen sects for abandoning the state , in the former case for their exclusive attention to Amida and the Pure ...
... contrast , had expanded on the Six Precepts in the same way as Zhen Dexiu ( 1178-1235 ) had done in his Extended Meaning of the Great Learning ( Daxue yanyi ) .2 Thus popularization underwent succes- sive phases of expansion ...
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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