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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... Mencius and Xunzi saw as essential to the fulfillment of the leadership responsibility , were not avail- able to all . In fact , in many times and places education was a distinct privilege of the leisured classes , which is why the ...
... Mencius. On the one hand, he, like others of his time, recognized the need for a distinct, edu- cated leadership ... Mencius in terms of the “ranks of man” and the “ranks of Heaven.” “The ranks of duke, minister, or high official are the ...
... Mencius of the role of the nobleman ( junzi ) from a hereditary aristocrat ( Men- cius ' “ ranks of man ” ) to the junzi as the moral ideal of the Noble Person ( exemplifying the “ nobility of Heaven ” ) . In the Dhammapada the focus is ...
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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 |