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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... wisdom and compas- sion that are as inseparable as soul and body — the wisdom of emptiness always open to the promptings of compassion , but compassion always qualified by the wisdom ( law ) of Emptiness . Here wisdom is the insight ...
Wm. Theodore de Bary, William Theodore De Bary. Here wisdom is the insight that recognizes the insub- stantiality of all things , their essential emptiness , while compassion , the impulse to share this wisdom with others still sunk in ...
... wisdom has keen roots and she is good at understanding the root activi- ties and deeds of living beings . . . . She is fully endowed with blessings , and when it comes to conceiving in mind and expounding by mouth , she is subtle ...
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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