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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... tradition as a source of remediation and to invoke such phrases as the Rule of Virtue . Chinese tradition is multi- plex , however , and if a largely traditional cult like the Falun Gong with its quasi - military discipline and ...
... tradition and reminds us that aesthetic values were a significant component of this civil tradition . Moreover , the importance of ritual , again in both the classic and the later , more developed tradition , represented a sig- nificant ...
... Tradition . New York : Random House . and Irene Bloom . 1990. Approaches to the Asian Classics . New York : Columbia University Press . and Irene Bloom , eds . 1999. Sources of Chinese Tradition , 2nd . ed . , v . I ( abbrev . in the ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shôtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
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