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. For Fanny First , last , and always " ... verdantly still " Contents Preface ix 1 Confucius ' Noble Person 1 2.
... Noble Person 1 2 The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama 13 3 Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility 44 4 Shōtoku's Constitution and the Civil Order in Early Japan 63 5 Chrysanthemum and Sword Revisited 80 6 The New Leadership and Civil ...
... noble individuals alone. But in early times the example of the truly noble leader was recognized as crucial to the ... person or man of learn- ing who also bore the burden of leadership in society. In the Analects, he calls on the ...
... human complications. The Asian ideals discussed here are thus seen as conflicted human values, conflicted in the same sense as in my earlier book, The Trouble with Confucianism. This book, which ranges widely over several civilizations ...
... , Honolulu, where much of the writing of this book was done in the winter of 2002–03. Special thanks to Elizabeth Buck, Charles Morrison, and Wendy Nohara. Nobility and Civility 1 Confucius' Noble Person When a leading xiv Preface.
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 |