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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... dynasties claimed to rule over a univer- sal state - one transcending the local claims of tribe and clan - and to ... dynasty and the Shilla kingdom , then attempting to unify Korea . To this end , he hoped to construct a meritocratic ...
... dynasties of China was to teach the way of " self - discipline for the gov- ernance of men " which began with such household duties as " sprinkling and sweeping , and responding to others , " all based on the individual's moral nature ...
... dynasties by the government using political force , rather it refers to the community com- pact launched in the beginning by villagers themselves at the outset in the Song dynasty . . . . In the practice of the community compact ...
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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