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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... social intercourse , but how relevant these social norms would be to any political process is another matter . The two levels on which civil morality and the public in- terest might be understood in classical Confucianism are indicated ...
... social activities in which he en- gages : 1. Going to festivals in honor of the deities 2. Salons ( gatherings of both sexes ) 3. Drinking parties 4. Picnics 5. Other social diversions.8 Significantly , the text identifies the women ...
... social and cultural graces , accomplished in all the arts , a man of the most re- fined sensibility , delicacy of feeling , and deep emotional in- volvements , who plays a splendid role at a glittering court . But what he is not is just ...
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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