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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... virtue , " certainly Confucianism is the most likely source of a civility ( cultural refinement ) combining intellectual and moral virtues . Well - known to Meiji period readers of the Neo - Confucian Four Books , from the Emperor Meiji ...
... virtue , " certainly Confucianism is the most likely source of a civility ( cultural refinement ) combining intellectual and moral virtues . Well - known to Meiji period readers of the Neo - Confucian Four Books , from the Emperor Meiji ...
... virtue : the innate sense of empathy or commiseration , which if cultivated and di- rected by principle would develop into the virtue of hu- maneness ( ren ) ; the sense of shame which could be devel- oped into the virtue of rightness ...
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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