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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... principle " and " unitary principle , " which have a new meaning as part of the conceptual lan- guage developed in Song and Ming China . Razan's point is clear enough : the ruler can legitimize himself by using his power to benefit the ...
... principle of the Way , intangible and ultimately illimitable , but nonethe- less real , as a directive principle ( like the North Star ) and as an inherent genetic principle providing all things with a norm for their own growth and ...
... principle underlying the Way as a dynamic process of change and growth - a Way that combined genetic struc- ture ( principle ) with the life force inherent in matter / en- ergy . This view of the life force as both dynamic and di ...
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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