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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... daimyo in maintaining some kind of unity and stability . It was partly in response to this conflict that the countervailing insistence on " loyalty to one's lord " emerged as a prime demand on the samurai conscience attempting to rein ...
... daimyo was mostly directed at the warrior class , and at settling dis- putes and vendettas among them that drained resources away from what the daimyo saw as central to their own in- terests . In trying to assert their own superior ...
... daimyo swore undying loyalty to the throne . Beyond this Hideyoshi tried to assume the mantle of Heian - style patron of the arts , outdoing himself with ex- travaganzas in the performance of a mammoth tea cere- mony and as sponsor of ...
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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