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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... 147 Citizen and Subject in Modern Japan 168 9 " The People Renewed " in Twentieth - Century China 203 Epilogue 224 Notes 235 Works Cited 241 Index 245 Preface The nature of true leadership; its relation to learning, Contents.
... learning, vir- tue, and education in human governance; the role in soci- ety of what today is often called the public intellectual— these have been questions for humankind in some form since the dawn of history and civilization. In one ...
... learning. It is said: “The shi must be stout-hearted and enduring, for his burden is heavy and his Way is long. Humaneness is the burden he takes upon himself. Is it not heavy? Only in death does his Way come to an end. Is it not long ...
... learning and education , which Confucius and his successors 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 ...
... learning and criticized what had been instituted by the authorities. But at present Your Majesty possesses a unified empire, has regulated the distinctions of black and white, and has firmly established for yourself a position of sole ...
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 |