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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... represent the established order , the critique is based on classic values , raising them to a still higher level . It remains in touch with the kinship values that persist into a new urbanizing civilization still largely based on an ag ...
... represent both the bedrock strength of Gandhi's movement and its limitation in coping with the problems of a larger world . Gandhi had great faith in his own soul - force and in passive resistance as the answer to all problems , but his ...
... represent or advance the public good . The in- terests of the family at court or in the feudal domains and the personal honor of the samurai were all that mattered socially . Parallel to this in the religious domain was an emphasis on ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shōtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
Copyright | |
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