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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... values and standards of culture has been a feature of expanding civilizations since the dawn of history , and the problems attendant upon it ( as well as the response to these ) offer a perspective on the di- lemmas of our own era . If ...
... values and rituals in a new way , without denying the world of human values ( in other words , without aiming at the " other shore " of Nirvana and transcendence of ordi- nary experience ) , but carrying these natural , human values to ...
... values , it is the indomitable martial spirit of the Japanese and their loyalty to the ruler ( as in the case of the loyal minister sacrificing his own son and later offering to sacrifice his wife ) that override all other values ...
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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