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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... ment on people's crimes . Fortunately the Tokugawa govern- ment sentenced these rebellious men to death , thus set- 162 Civil and Military in Tokugawa Japan.
... ment unconcernedly continues in office . To put the theory in its worst light , it is a pretext which enables the govern- ment freely to perpetrate any kind of arbitrary misrule . Thus it is inconsistent with the principle that final ...
... ment that would provide the organs through which a re- newed and reeducated citizenry could express itself . To this extent then we can say that Liang advocated many of the elements of a civil society . But in his zeal to create a new ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shôtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
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