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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... ( junzi ) whose moral stature and wis- dom give real meaning and value to the junzi as a mem- ber of the hereditary aristocracy , at a time when that class was giving way to a more meritocratic bureaucracy ( 6th to 3rd c . BCE ) . Here ...
... ( junzi ) whose moral stature and wis- dom give real meaning and value to the junzi as a mem- ber of the hereditary aristocracy , at a time when that class was giving way to a more meritocratic bureaucracy ( 6th to 3rd c . BCE ) . Another ...
... ( junzi ) from a hereditary aristocrat ( Men- cius ' " ranks of man " ) to the junzi as the moral ideal of the Noble Person ( exemplifying the " nobility of Heaven ” ) . In the Dhammapada the focus is on the way of life of the arhat ...
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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