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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... moral virtue and public 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 ...
... at opposite ends of the scale in its oper- ation as a result of the different levels of knowledge and vir- tue allowed by their peoples.1 Here, in emphasizing that the level of political moral- ity 1. Confucius' Noble Person.
... moral- ity and an informed public are even more crucial to the outcome than formal structures, Yoshino appears squarely placed at a time in early twentieth century Japan when civic mindedness on the part of the people as a whole, and ...
... moral virtues . Well - known to Meiji period readers of the Neo - Confucian Four Books , from the Emperor Meiji himself down to newly educated commoners , were passages in the Analects such as this : “ Lead them by means of regulations ...
... moral values : Zigong asked about government . The Master said : “ Suf- ficient food , sufficient arms , and the confidence of the peo- ple . ” Zigong said , “ If one , unavoidably , had to dispense with one of these three , which of ...
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 |