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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... nature of all human beings ; they were real because they corresponded to actual human feelings and related to the conduct of life in human society — in contrast to the realiza- tion of an ineffable Buddha - nature . For Zhu Xi they were ...
... ) by affirming that self - cultivation should start , not from scholarly or intellectual pursuits , but from the natural expression of one's moral nature , extending one's innate knowledge 140 Leadership and Civil Society in Song China .
... Nature of the five quarters — the Nature which has trust as one of its principal constituents . What your country is warning against is simply that we might lose this trust , which may bring various unfortunate results . As long ...
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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