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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... shogunate further rec- ognized the need for regulating the conduct of vassals , but evoked the precedent of ... shogun's control over the local feudal powers ( the daimyô , literally " great names , " again suggest- ing the privatization ...
... shogunate in ritual matters . We recall the shogunate's ear- lier arrogation to itself of authority in matters of ritual , even in regulations for the imperial court . Implicit in this was a claim ― remarkable for a shogunal regime ...
... shogunate was no more . Fukuzawa's reference to " the re- sponsibilities of citizens " reflects his awareness that West- ern models have come to rival Chinese ones , and the con- cept of citizenship in a modern state has been advanced ...
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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