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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... ruler . As this virtue and function are rendered in the Confucian Chronicle of Mr. Zuo ( 4th to 3rd c . BCE ) , a civil process , still predicated on the family ideal , goes on to involve all classes and levels of society in the ...
... ruler himself who did terrible things . When a good ruler goes about rewarding good and punishing excess , he nourishes his people as if they were his children , shelters them like Heaven , accom- modates them like the earth . And when ...
... ruler that if he would support Buddhism , the Buddhist clergy would sup- port him , and he would enjoy the beneficent religious influ- ences of Buddhism . This was essentially a symbiotic rela- tionship between two separate and distinct ...
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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