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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... later patriarch is accepted as a living Buddha and his words are accepted as having the same status as the authentic teaching of the original Bud- dha himself . In this case , however , the Sixth Patriarch is a commoner with virtually ...
... later years . The sword , on the other hand , was two - edged , and as a symbol of violence and cruelty ( not just self - control ) it too has a long history . The stories of both the chrysanthemum and the sword could no doubt be traced ...
... later characterize the Confucian revival in the Song era : the Confucian Way as a moral Way based on hu- man relationships , and also as the Way of the Noble Man and the sage - king , who are leaders in sustaining human life and helping ...
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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