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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... respect for and loyalty to the sovereign , but the Buddhist clergy , by the nature of their life and lofty religious aims , were far re- moved from ordinary men . Hui - yuan says : If one examines the broad essentials of the teachings ...
... respect the Constitution and observe the laws . Should emergency arise , offer yourselves courageously to the State ( giyūkō ni hōshi ) ; and thus guard and maintain the prosperity of Our Imperial Throne coeval with Heaven- and - earth ...
... respect the group , fulfilling the requisite obliga- tion ; the group will necessarily respect the individual , ac- cording it due liberty and equality . . . . The principle of this organization is based in China's idea of ethics . It ...
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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