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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... serve as officials , they are not my disci- ples . " 9 As an alternative to Buddhism's serving the state , the Sutra of the Humane King proposes that the state and Bud- dhism serve each other . Using the vocabulary of Chinese monarchy ...
... serve superiors ; to be friendly with relatives and acquaintances ; to be able to choose friends ; to be able to ... serving one's fa- ther and elder brothers , instructing one's children and younger brothers , and managing one's wife ...
... serve the public inter- est - to do what was right on behalf of common humanity or in advancing the common good . For him this meant the minister or official's fidelity to principle in serving as men- tor to the ruler in public matters ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shōtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
Copyright | |
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