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. Nobility & Civility Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good Wm . Theodore de Bary Harvard University Press Cambridge , Massachusetts , and London , England 2004 ...
... 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. Leadership Religious aspects ...
... common “human” concerns. Confucius spoke of this self- awareness as a sense of shame or as its corollary, a sense of self-respect, to which the ruler, if he be truly a leader, must appeal if he is not to rely on coercive means that ...
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 |