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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... role of the warrior class , but invests it with a new religious significance - action performed on a higher spiri- tual plane , transcending the conflict and contradiction in human moral sentiments . Nobility is not denied or rejected ...
... role of the sage - king , however , Han Yü outdid himself . He cast the ruler in a strong au- thoritarian role , and in one of his long poems engaged in egregious hero - worship of the reigning emperor ( 574 ) . This was not to be ...
... role of " public opinion " a recognition ( similar to that of his somewhat earlier contemporary , Nakae Chômin ) that the essential element in remedying Japan's weaknesses versus the West lay in stimulating more active participation of ...
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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