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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... thoughts , that is enough . The text shows a strong continuity between the medieval mentality of the Ashikaga samurai and a modern writer like Mishima Yukio ( 1925–1970 ) ( see Chapter 8 ) , but in the in- tervening period this same ...
... thought of the people has not developed . Yet , whether or not the people's thought develops is really determined by whether or not advanced thinkers properly guide it . When the small class of leaders holds to its narrow - minded views ...
... thoughts or they write down on small posters their personal defects and what they hope to achieve and put them up where they work or ... thought , the rectification of the heart , the 214 " The People Renewed " in Twentieth - Century China.
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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