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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... individuals normally identified their selfhood , thereby propping up an illusory sense of a substantial , en- during self , where in fact none such existed . This goal was to be achieved through individual effort , and while its ...
... individual will necessarily respect the group , fulfilling the requisite obliga- tion ; the group will necessarily respect the individual , ac- cording it due liberty and equality . . . . The principle of this organization is based in ...
... individual and the free exercise of his own con- science . Nevertheless , despite Liu's clear admonition that self- cultivation was not to be directed toward the cultivation of an autonomous individual or person , and despite his cau ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shôtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
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