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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... one's intentions sincere ; ( 4 ) rectifying one's mind ; ( 5 ) cultivating one's person ; ( 6 ) regulating the family ; ( 7 ) ordering the state ; and ( 8 ) bringing peace to all- under - Heaven . What Zhu Xi meant by investigating ...
... one's family ; to be able to serve father and elder brothers ; to be able to instruct sons and younger brothers ; to ... one's fa- ther and elder brothers , instructing one's children and younger brothers , and managing one's wife and ...
... one's life for one's lord that accompanied this im- portant cultural development in Kamakura Buddhism rip- ened , through a process of further historical mediation , into the deeper standpoint of transcending death and life . The ...
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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