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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... whole natural and celestial order . Closely allied to this conception of duty is Rama's act of self - renunciation . This is not renunciation of the world in the manner of the Buddha Shakyamuni , who gave up king- ship as offering no ...
... whole . Zhu himself was not unaware of this problem or of the practical difficulties in the way of implementing his pro- gram . As an official , his days at court were limited ( as both a renowned scholar and gadfly it was an awkward ...
... whole world , " as set forth in The Great Learning , ' also means the same . All this shows that in achieving one's progress one must make seri- ous and energetic efforts to carry on self - cultivation and study . However , many of ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shōtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
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