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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... speaking for Heaven as the over - arching guardian and guarantor of the public sphere , the “ sacred canopy " which the Confucians invoked by the saying : " Heaven does not speak ; it speaks as my peo- ple speak . " Confucian texts ...
... speak with the Noble Voice that is characteristic of epic as a genre , 5 and they both speak to the crisis of a nobil- ity ( the kshatriya ) that must now express itself in terms that go beyond kinship relations . Though the Mahabharata ...
... speak . How does the bodhisattva enter the gate of non - duality ? " At that time Vimalakirti remained silent and did not speak a word . Manjushri sighed and said , " Excellent , excellent ! Not a word , not a syllable — this truly is ...
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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