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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... Asian ideals of 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 ...
Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good Wm. Theodore de Bary. solutions; these features of society cannot be controlled simply by the charismatic force of noble individuals alone. But in early times the example of the truly noble ...
Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good Wm. Theodore de Bary. well known and either long respected or long contested in these traditions—ones that have often been referred to as landmarks of cultural history and in this sense ...
Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good Wm. Theodore de Bary. Nobility and Civility 1 Confucius' Noble Person When a leading Japanese proponent of.
Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good Wm. Theodore de Bary. Here, in emphasizing that the level of political moral- ity and an informed public are even more crucial to the outcome than formal structures, Yoshino appears squarely ...
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 |