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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... responsibility for the welfare of a people often unable to help themselves and dependent rather on an informed , disciplined , self- controlled leadership . Hence the Analects speaks of the heavy responsibility of the shi , understood ...
... responsibility for decisions vanished like the morning mist . " On the other hand , consultation has smoothed the polit- ical process ; it has avoided all - out confrontation and obvi- ated the kind of violence and terror that many ...
... Responsibility , Sex Change , and Sal- vation : Gender Justice in the Lotus Sutra . " Philosophy East and West , v . 52. n . 1 , January . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press . The Rāmāyana of Valmiki . 1984. Gen. ed . Robert P ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shōtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
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