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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... classic values have been known in modern times, if at all, through the revered clas- sics and scriptures of major traditions, but their relevance and adaptability to modern circumstances remains unclear if these values are conceived ...
... classic texts of the major Asian tradi- tions in India, China, and Japan. Obviously, my method is highly selective, and of relevant source materials, not at all exhaustive, but I have chosen to work with texts that are well known and ...
... classics or monumental works, they have readily attracted the atten- tion of translators, and most of them exist in multiple ren- ditions. Since I myself, however, have been the sponsor, ed- itor, or translator of many texts prepared ...
... classics we find a chronicle that goes one step beyond this conception of an ideal society constituted on the nobility of family-style leadership to something like a civil society expressed in the Confucian (and more particularly ...
... classic writings of Confucian critics who arouse popu- lar dissent and disaffection: In earlier times the empire ... Classic of Odes, the Classic of Documents and discourses of the hun- dred philosophers should take them to the local ...
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 |