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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... society " as modern scholars have written about it . The latter concept does have relevance to how organized life can be sustained in the face of the unprecedented violence that dominates so much of contemporary life . Indeed , coping ...
... society constituted on the nobility of family - style leadership to something like a civil society expressed in the Confucian ( and more particularly Mencian ) conception of the Noble Person as the loyal minister whose prime virtue ...
... society . In so emphasizing the leadership role of the sage - king , however , Han Yü outdid himself . He cast the ruler in a strong au- thoritarian role , and in one of his ... society " in the Leadership and Civil Society in Song China 121.
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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