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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... ethic popular- ized in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , as well as the vestiges of a medieval samurai ethic that had come to be identified as bushidô ( The Way of the Warrior ) . The Tokugawa shogunate had claimed that it ...
... ethic popular- ized in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , as well as the vestiges of a medieval samurai ethic that had come to be identified as bushido ( The Way of the Warrior ) . The Tokugawa shogunate had claimed that it ...
... ethic but opening up to the larger perspectives of a literate , ur- bane culture identified with the term wen - which distin- guished a nonviolent , noncoercive civility from the martial values and virtues identified with the term wu ...
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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