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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... ritual , and his eclectic instincts led him at one point to ask Kûkai humbly for instruction and initiation into a ... rituals . Sometimes " esoteric , " taken to mean " secret , " has been understood as privileging a religious or ...
... ritual matters . We recall the shogunate's ear- lier arrogation to itself of authority in matters of ritual , even in regulations for the imperial court . Implicit in this was a claim ― remarkable for a shogunal regime whose raison d ...
... ritual of a divine imperial institution . Finally , in 1970 , Mishima acted out his idea by invading a headquarters of the Self - Defense Forces ( the name of the postwar military ) , reading an indictment of the United States ...
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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