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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... interest against their own or others ' private interest . To turn away from that which is private , and to set our faces towards that which is public - this is the path of a minister . Now if a man is influenced by private motives , he ...
... interests , transcending the otherwise expedient morality that tended to prevail , even in matters of feudal loyalty . A lasting and powerful vestige of this was the act of suicide as the ulti- mate , redeeming demonstration of personal ...
... interests of the Party as a whole , and place the Party's interests above his per- sonal problems and interests . It is the highest principle of our Party members that the Party's interests are supreme . ( 427-430 ) Here Liu tries to ...
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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