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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... samurai conscience attempting to rein in the samurai's independence . Given the decentralization of the feudal system as well as the wide range and heterogeneous character of the per- sonal problems to be dealt with in the local or ...
... samurai to avenge an insult to their lord and his wrongful death . ( The samurai are usually referred to here as rônin , masterless samurai , because the death of their lord left them without a master . ) The alleged insult to their ...
... samurai began to reflect on the significance of the death - defying duty they undertook , they would perhaps have become confused on the issue . And , in point of historical fact , this gave rise to two tendencies in the late Muromachi ...
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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