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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... loyalty to the ruler , he might have done so in his vernacular exposition of the second maxim . Instead he kept to Zhu Xi's original concept of family and communitarian roles , not loyalty to state or emperor . In a post - face to his ...
... loyalty to the lord ahead of filial piety as the prime virtue . Not only did this occur in formal instruction and standard texts , but it was even dra- matized in such a popular Kabuki play as Chikamatsu's Battle of Coxinga ( 1715 ) ...
... loyalty to clan and family and lack of national loyalty — a defect in the people which caused him to call for " the freedom of the nation " rather than " freedom for the people . " Likewise Mao Zedong later saw clan and family loyalties ...
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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