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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... fucian Book of Documents , where the founding myth is of the sage - king Yao standing alone and fixed , as a perfect personification of wisdom , dignity , and self - restraint , and one can imagine why the Japanese , not entirely ...
... fucian Way was distinct from Daoism and Buddhism ; it represented the values of civilization , as the others did not . Buddhism had the additional defect of being a foreign reli- gion , but his pairing of it with native Daoism showed ...
... could have drawn subconsciously from Con- fucian tradition in some ways cannot be discounted . Re- cently the Chinese scholar Li Zehou reassessed the contin- uing " The People Renewed " in Twentieth - Century China 211.
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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