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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... official practice in the Ming and Qing periods that it early came to the attention of foreign observers , who noted its official character , its emphasis on compliance with the authorities , and the fact that it had tended to become a ...
... official ritualization by which the perfor- mance became endowed with a quasi - religious aura . Again , few contemporaries realized the extent to which this was a transformation of Zhu Xi's original Community Compact , which had ...
... officials but this public opinion . When the mass of society is in error , one should not put the blame on the policies of officials . The ancients felt the necessity of first rectifying the ruler's mind , but my idea is different . The ...
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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