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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... ideas appropriate to a modernizing situation . In the Japanese case , the received values could be summed up in ... idea that the new citizenry should combine the samurai ethic with learn- ing from the West , incorporating something ...
... idea . " Actually , if one looks at what he wrote about Western civilization , one wonders whether he even thought that it could be a good idea . He was sweeping in his criticism of the West as irreli- gious and immoral : “ This ...
... idea persisted that study of the Confu- cian classics was an important adjunct to the preparation even of Buddhist monks , because these texts dealt with secular matters not treated in the Buddhist texts . Vestiges of this idea were ...
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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