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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... kind , but especially factional dealing , election buying , and serving the moneyed inter- ests . Whether such corruption was more prevalent in Ja- pan than in other democracies is arguable ; it may simply have been better publicized ...
... mist . " On the other hand , consultation has smoothed the polit- ical process ; it has avoided all - out confrontation and obvi- ated the kind of violence and terror that many totalitar- Citizen and Subject in Modern Japan 195.
... kind that Neo - Confucians had advocated but never achieved . He was also committed to constitutional govern- ment that would provide the organs through which a re- newed and reeducated citizenry could express itself . To this extent ...
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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