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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... followed him ; in this sense it was exceptional , but there was nothing exclusive about it or elitist in the social sense . Reli- gious liberation was open to all . What made it appear later to be exclusive or elitist was , rather , the ...
... followed the Way . ' Therefore , ' neither good nor bad ' is the ultimate truth of the Middle [ Way ] . " I answered : " My opinion is different from this . May I be allowed to speak my mind ? I think that the Mean is good , that it ...
... laws and regulations promulgated throughout the land , which were followed up by the Six Precepts of the Qing Emperor [ Kang Xi ] for the regulation of his conquered empire and Civil and Military in Tokugawa Japan 149.
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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