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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... universal religion that can motivate people to overcome their evil propensities . Without his saying so explicitly , one can understand this universal religion as serving the pur- poses of the universal state by helping to overcome the ...
... universal ruler , chakravartin , who would wield the sacred power of the mantra and esoteric rituals to exorcize all forms of evil and misfortune.1 Institutionally speaking , the Confucian College in Nara was only one part of the legal ...
... universal , 22 ; universal ruler ( chakra- vartin ) , 78 ; Middle Index.
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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