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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... sage - king Yao is in the Confucian canon . Shôtoku's Article One reads : Harmony is to be valued and contentiousness avoided . All men are inclined to partisanship and few are truly discern- ing . Hence there are some who disobey their ...
... sage - king or noble per- son . Yet here he acknowledges the difficulty of finding a wise man to govern , when he says : " It is not until after a lapse of five hundred years that we at last meet with a wise man , and even in a thousand ...
... sage - king , who are leaders in sustaining human life and helping people to flourish in civilized society . In so emphasizing the leadership role of the sage - king , however , Han Yü outdid himself . He cast the ruler in a strong au ...
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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