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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... elite bearing a heavy burden of public service . In its most general sense , the burden of humane service to society might be taken up by anyone ; to this extent it may be seen as a universal value , and something of the kind was ...
... elite ) would also exemplify the nobility of Heaven , but ideally , too , the nobility of Heaven was represented by moral values that any man could emulate . This convergence of the two sets of values is also indi- cated in Mencius ...
... elite , but later generalized , to a greater or lesser degree , as a value appropriate to all . To illustrate the point in relation to Buddhism I shall draw on the Dhammapada , a standard work of the Theravada Buddhist tradition , and ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shōtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
Copyright | |
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