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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... trans . Burton , 76. Literally , a " man of city or town . " Compare “ man about town " in Kamasutra , trans . Doniger and Kukar , 17 . 8. Doniger , 19 ; Burton , 76 . 9. Burton , 78-79 ; Doniger , 20 . 10. The Sukraniti , trans ...
... Trans . adapted from W. J. Boot in SJT II , ch . 21 . 6. Han Xin was a famous general who served Liu Bang , the first em- peror of the Han ; Xiang Yu was the great Chu general who fought Liu Bang for the Chinese empire . 7. Nakae Tôju ...
... Trans . Ivan Morris . New York : Columbia University Press . Sima Qian . 1961. Shiji . Partial trans . Burton Watson , Records of the Grand Historian , 2 vols . New York : Columbia University Press . The Sukraniti . 1975 ( 10th - 16th c ...
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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