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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... Learning , citing the Confucian classics and historical examples . Starting with infant care ( indeed even prenatal care ) , it went on to the child's learning of household chores and family duties , then how one dealt with human ...
... Learning ( for " everyman " or every child in the home setting ) and to the basic charter Zhu drew up for the White Deer Academy , which became a model for the schooling of educated youth throughout East Asia . Since education by formal ...
... Learning and the Mean , an empathetic understanding of others and of all things was seen as essential . The method of the Great Learning , known as the Eight Items or Steps , consisted of ( 1 ) investigating things ; ( 2 ) extending ...
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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