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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... rule that depends on an appeal to people's self - respect and voluntary compliance with the law . " Virtue and the rites " sum up a moral culture that is conducive to gover- nance based on voluntary compliance — a civility support- ive ...
... rule that depends on an appeal to people's self - respect and voluntary compliance with the law . " Virtue and the rites " sum up a moral culture that is conducive to gover- nance based on voluntary compliance - a civility support- ive ...
... rule as a true king , but in the meantime he has demonstrated that only one ready to renounce power is truly qualified to exercise it . The point of the story is that virtuous rule remains a value , while true nobility is raised to a ...
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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