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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... political culture needed to sustain them: Whether or not constitutional government will work well is partly a matter of structure and procedures, but it is also a question of the general level of the peoples' knowledge and virtue ...
... political democracy was advanced to replace an earlier, more aristocratic and authoritarian political order. But if he calls upon “educators, religious leaders and think- ers” to aid in this process of raising the level of the peo- ples ...
... political parties , and who in the 1930s did indeed attempt violent coups against party gov- ernments . Yet it is an indication of Yoshino's worries about preserving the integrity of parliamentary processes that he focused instead on ...
... political process is another matter. The two levels on which civil morality and the public in- terest might be understood in classical Confucianism are indicated in the text of Mencius. On the one hand, he, like others of his time ...
... relationship—filiality and brotherliness es- pecially—provide the basis of a “constitutional” dynastic succession and political due process. What is striking in the Chinese case is that within Confucius' Noble Person 7.
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 |