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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... tion , consists in making value judgments and acting on be- half of the common good ; by so doing one achieves unity with the Way . Ieyasu cites the historic examples of Cheng Tang overthrowing the last king of Xia , and King Wu of Zhou ...
... tion , not re - construction , because the community compact he had in mind , following Zhu Xi's model , had always been overshadowed by the state and offered no real precedent to be reactivated . Thus he wrote : Westerners have always ...
... tion and a pervasive sense of moral crisis that has led some members of the postrevolutionary establishment to think ... tion in Beijing of Confucius ' 2540th anniversary celebra- tion ( a speech endorsed by Jiang Zemin ) : As is known ...
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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