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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... culture , but first as its foil and later even its accomplice , is a by - product of the flower culture's ascen- dancy at the Imperial Court itself . For the cultivation of a refined gentility and the aestheticization of the Heian Court ...
... culture patronized by the Muromachi court in Kyoto , Zen monks played an important role in what is known as the Higashiyama culture so formative of the later Japanese aesthetic tradition . Thus they demonstrated their ability to bridge ...
... culture , from the flower arrange- ment and tea ceremony to kendô and jûdô , and even from kabuki to gangster movies or from Zen to military eti- quette , 15 It is not adequate to extract from Japanese culture only its static side and ...
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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