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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... knowledge and virtue . . . . The fundamental prerequisite for perfecting constitutional government . . . is the cultivation of knowl- edge and virtue among the generality of the people . . . . ( It is extremely important not to rely on ...
... knowledge of texts , in this case the Buddhist scriptures . Yet when the proposal was made at court to examine monks on their knowledge of Buddhist scriptures , a leading Chan ( Zen ) master 54 Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility .
... knowledge and action . " Knowl- edge that is true and genuine is action , action that is con- scious and discriminating is knowledge . " This means that ethics is entirely reduced to the self - conscious action of the individual . " ...
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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