ADM 3318 Lecture 1: Asia Backgrounder -Dharmic Traditions and Ethics Culture in Asia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 3318
• Professor: Ado Abdoulkadre

Document Summary

Culture: asian traditions & ethics, religions, and secular convictions 4. Liberation or moksha or nirvana in the dharmic tradition 11. Dharmic-tradition perspective of universal values: social, economic, and personal. Development issues in asia of the 21st century operate in multiethnic and multiconfessional states, with their obvious differences. No, people do not hold the same values. Some want to assert their dominance now and in future follow my rule book my way or the highway. Others, particularly emerging societies, do not want to be culturally dominated nor cede their sovereignty to the west. Without basking in an idealized past, modern china offers a good counter-example to the claim that globalization necessarily means westernization. Other cultures will also further develop and represent theirs in the global marketplace. Harvard and beijing university claims that chinese civilization has its own distinct paradigm for modernity and globalization. 1 there is a large movement among native. Chinese to develop confucian modernity" based on confucian ethics.