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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... Esoteric and Shinto ritu- als , and Japanese aesthetic culture accommodating to one another , but with Confucianism hardly to be seen in public For Kûkai's academy , however , this outcome could have been predicted from his own larger ...
... esoteric doctrines are so profound as to defy their enunciation in writing . With the help of painting , however , their obscurities may be understood . The various attitudes and mudrâs of the holy images all have their source in ...
... esoteric rituals . Sometimes " esoteric , " taken to mean " secret , " has been understood as privileging a religious or cultural elite who jealously guarded their vested power over the administra- tion of religion or their own secret ...
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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