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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... Confucianism. This book, which ranges widely over several civilizations and historical eras, can only be suggestive of how evolving concepts of leadership (“nobility”) and public morality (“ci- vility”) in several Asian traditions may ...
... Confucian ethic popular- ized in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the vestiges of a medieval samurai ethic that had come to be identified as bushidō (The Way of the Warrior). The Tokugawa shogunate had claimed that it ...
... Confucianism is the most likely source of a civility ( cultural refinement ) combining intellectual and moral virtues . Well - known to Meiji period readers of the Neo - Confucian Four Books , from the Emperor Meiji himself down to ...
... Confucianism the moral ground on which both the leadership and the people stood was the family vir- tues shared by all orders of society, rulers and subjects alike. This is exemplified in the founding myth of a civilized order ...
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 |