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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... practice and a state that anyone of any class can aspire to . In this case Theravada Buddhism presents itself as egalitarian and open to all . At the same time , the religious practice itself , if not selfish , is nevertheless spoken of ...
... practice of Buddhism , deplored the failure of Hônen to uphold its disciplines.11 For both Hônen and his critics , however , it was a question not of how these precepts related to the political or social order , but of how necessary ...
... practice . This is , of course , absurd . We cannot cultivate ourselves in this way . We are materialists and our cultivation cannot be separated from practice . What is important to us is that we must not under any circumstances ...
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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