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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... Things at Hand , enti- tled " The Substance of the Way , " asserted the substantial reality of the Way in contrast to the Buddhist Way premised on the law of impermanence and the insubstantiality of all things ( in the Theravada ) and ...
... things was seen as essential . The method of the Great Learning , known as the Eight Items or Steps , consisted of ( 1 ) investigating things ; ( 2 ) extending knowledge or learn- ing ; ( 3 ) making one's intentions sincere ; ( 4 ) ...
... thing or affair we come into contact with , for the intelligent [ spiritual ] human mind always has principles inherent in the capacity to know [ learn ] , and the things and affairs of this world all have their principles to be ...
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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