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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... cultivation could only be achieved by relating the self to " all - under- Heaven . " This was expressed in the ideal of the " humane- ness which forms one body with Heaven - and - earth and all things " ( Tiandi wanwu yiti zhiren ) ...
... cultivation in gen- eral we also need special cultivation for different groups and for individual comrades . Accordingly , there should be different kinds of methods and forms of cultivation . For example , many of our com- rades keep a ...
... cultivation of the person , the regulation of the family , the ordering well of the state , and bringing peace for the whole world , " as set forth in The Great Learning , ' also means the same . All this shows that in achieving one's ...
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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