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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... nobility of man . " " Humaneness , rightness , loyalty and trustworthi- ness are the nobility of Heaven " ( Mencius 6A : 16 ) . Ideally , those holding the ranks of man ( the leadership elite ) would also exemplify the nobility of ...
... nobility that goes beyond mere good - breeding or gentility — a dis- tinction that will become increasingly relevant and critical in all those Asian contexts in which personal nobility , social gentility , and even aesthetic sensibility ...
... nobility ( kuge , literally “ civil or public families " ) privy to these negotia- tions . On the other hand , the aesthetic ideals and standards of proper conduct - often no less tacitly understood — were widely recognized as values ...
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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