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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... lord and retainer , or lord and samurai , terms which car- ried with them all the medieval baggage of supposedly undying personal loyalty of the vassal to the lord . Put an- other way , it meant a readiness to sacrifice everything - and ...
... lord left them without a master . ) The alleged insult to their lord had come from a master of ceremonies ( ritual ) at the sho- gunal court , whose assassination by the forty - seven rônin avenged the insult but provoked their ...
... lord . Kamakura period Buddhism undoubtedly represents a Japanization of Buddhism . However , the initial feudal standpoint of willingly sacri- ficing one's life for one's lord that accompanied this im- portant cultural development in ...
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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