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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... Military in Tokugawa Japan 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 ...
... military virtues together in one stable order after cen- turies of medieval feudal warfare. Indeed, some ideologues of the Meiji era had propagated the idea that the new citizenry should combine the samurai ethic with learn- ing from ...
... military and civil functions . In Japan , much later , this was equated with the samurai , and one can recognize some rough analogue here between Confucius ' time and Yoshino's in the shi's transi- tion from a military to a more civil ...
... military aristocracy . In these works the claims of both classes are called into question and new ideals are put forward — a rough parallel to the re - evaluation by Confucius and Mencius of the role of the nobleman ( junzi ) from a ...
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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 |