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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... feudal obli- gation and the codes of the military governments and mili- tary households , themselves representing a privatization of law after the lapse of any public order . The adoption of feudal codes proceeded , like so many changes ...
... feudal loyalty . A lasting and powerful vestige of this was the act of suicide as the ulti- mate , redeeming demonstration of personal honor , a prac- tice which eventually spread well beyond the samurai class itself . Of more direct ...
... feudalism " -in other words , under a military shogunate with better control over the daimyo , but with these feudal domains intact and the samurai still an hered- itary , military aristocracy . Continuity with the feudal past is ...
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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