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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... Early Japan 4 The key figure in the literal defining , if not the actual shap- ing , of the civilizational issues in early Japan of the sixth and seventh centuries is generally considered to be Prince Shôtoku ( 573-621 ) , acting as ...
... early centuries after Shôtoku did show progress , especially in the Taika reforms of 645. In the eighth century a permanent capital was established in Nara as a center of bureaucratic control ; and further attempts at strengthening ...
... early days as a revolutionary or for other early leaders of the Chinese communist movement , who were often carried away by the romantic idealism of a world proletarian revo- lutionary upheaval to be accomplished with little organiza ...
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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