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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... means , but three of them have particular rele- vance to our question of how nobility , according to this con- cept of non - dualist wisdom , would relate to Chinese civility . The most popular and influential illustrations of expe ...
... means , many of them more ap- pealing to the senses and even to the passions , as in the saying " the passions in themselves are enlightening . " In the Japanese context , " expedient means ” meant appealing more to an indigenous ...
... means being sure to act upon seeing the good and being sure to reform upon hearing of faults ; to be able to govern ... means , at home , serving one's fa- ther and elder brothers , instructing one's children and younger brothers , and ...
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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