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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... spiritual nobility , calling on the monk to separate himself from ordinary society and congregate with like - minded as- pirants to emancipation from the world . Note especially that Hui - yuan's is not an argument for freedom of ...
... spiritual no- bility taught in the Dhammapada . Another story in the Lotus further emphasizes the in- stant ... Spirituality and Chinese Civility 49.
... spiritual benefit of any ruling patron ; he did not suggest that Zen had any public morality or political program to offer . By contrast , the monk Nichiren ( 1227- 1282 ) , intolerant of any but his own belief , severely criti- cized ...
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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