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.
... nature of true leadership; its relation to 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 ...
... nature as human beings. And because there are rulers, it provides helpers for them who would teach and protect them and see that they do not overstep the bounds. Hence the Son of Heaven has his chief officers, the feudal lords have ...
... nature Heaven and Earth allotted them ? Surely it would not ! ” 4 What the Chronicle portrays here is not an egalitarian or democratic society , but nevertheless one in which all elements partake in the function of speaking for Heaven ...
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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 |