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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... court as seen from the van- tage point - and perhaps disadvantaged position - of court ladies . Nevertheless the lack of reference to political issues in this court is not simply attributable to a disinterest or un- awareness on the ...
... Court itself . For the cultivation of a refined gentility and the aestheticization of the Heian Court - what might even be called its demoralization— brought the court's withdrawal from serious engagement with the project of building ...
... court and court nobility remained a factor in the cultural legitimization ( through ritual and art ) of power holders or pretenders to authority . All of this occurred within the gen- eral pattern of privatization , in which , as ...
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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