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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... religion , the story can be helpful in judging both the plausibility and tendentiousness of later Mahayana ... religious life is identified primarily , and primordially , with meditation , a practice and a state that anyone of any class ...
... religion in the Heian period . Speaking of " The World of the Shining Prince " as represented in the work of Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon , Ivan Morris has said : Contemporary literature suggests that for many of the Heian ...
... religion of her time , and understands that it would naturally express itself in a sense of conflict - a dis- harmony - between physical appearances and inner religi- osity . Many passages in their works reveal the deep religious ...
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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