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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... 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.
... peoples, in an unquestioned and uncritical way, of current trends in the West, then the globalization of knowl- edge must take into account the values and experiences of other major civilizations. Today, unfortunately, these val- ues ...
... people's past experience in the implementa- tion of their own ideal values, it will be difficult to see how anyone could be expected to recognize and cope with simi- lar problems in the present. And unless some such aware- ness becomes ...
... peoples' knowledge and virtue. . . . The fundamental prerequisite for perfecting constitutional government . . . is the cultivation of knowl- edge and virtue among the generality of the people. . . . (It is extremely important not to ...
... people as a whole, and not just virtue ascribed to the leadership elite, had become an issue as political democracy was advanced to replace an earlier, more aristocratic and authoritarian political order. But if he calls upon “educators ...
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 |