Nobility and Civility: Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common GoodHarvard University Press, 1. juuli 2009 - 272 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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... Analects, he calls on the class of well-bred aristocrats known as shi in ancient China (somewhat like the knights or gentlemen of the medieval West) to put on the shining armor of moral virtue and public learning. It is said: “The shi ...
... Analects such as this : “ Lead them by means of regulations and keep order among them by punishments , and the people will evade them and lack any sense of shame . Lead them through virtue and the rites , and they will have a sense of ...
... Analects underscores this con- sensual element based on shared moral values : Zigong asked about government . The Master said : “ Suf- ficient food , sufficient arms , and the confidence of the peo- ple . ” Zigong said , “ If one ...
... 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 might be taken up by ...
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Contents
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3 Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
4 Shotokus Constitution and the Civil Order in Early Japan | 63 |
5 Chrysanthemum and Sword Revisited | 80 |
6 The New Leadership and Civil Society in Song China | 119 |
7 Civil and Military in Tokugawa Japan | 147 |
8 Citizen and Subject in Modern Japan | 168 |
9 The People Renewed in TwentiethCentury China | 203 |
Epilogue | 224 |
Notes | 235 |
Works Cited | 241 |
Index | 245 |