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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... leadership and the common good / Wm . Theodore de Bary . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-674-01557-6 ( alk . paper ) 1. Leadership Asia - History . 2. Civil society - Asia - History . 3. Leadership ...
... leadership . Hence the Analects speaks of the heavy responsibility of the shi , understood as members of a leadership elite bearing a heavy burden of public service . In its most general sense , the burden of humane service to society ...
... leadership . He is not rallying samurai with sword in hand , but mobilizing peasants who need leaders , and he calls on members of the educated elite to provide that leadership , not just to practice the gentlemanly arts of the ...
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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