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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... Liberalism , " his description of liberalism sounded much like a characterization of a moderate Confucianism : We advocate an active ideological struggle , because it is the weapon for achieving solidarity within the Party and the ...
... liberal leavening effect on the party . The party leadership , however , seems to be con- vinced that capitalist liberals can be coopted to serve the party . Since in fact capitalists have no political organization of their own to ...
... liberalism today acknowledges no legitimate barriers to rea- son , hence no legitimate ascriptive barriers to liberal inclu- sion and liberal citizenship . The result is a deep paradox . The global appeal of an en- lightened liberalism ...
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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