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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... role in soci- ety of what today is often called the public intellectual— these have been questions for humankind in some form since the dawn of history and civilization. In one voice or another the prophet, the epic poet (once ...
... roles . The leadership role is one that requires an education , training , and culture ; a “ breeding ” that can be respected by the peo- ple but emulated only to a certain degree by those less cul- turally advantaged . As a class , the ...
... role and risks of instigating civil discussion and debate— challenging enough in this case to invite repression from a ruling power bent on monopolizing the public sphere. In the following chapter we go on to ask whether some- thing ...
... role of the nobleman ( junzi ) from a hereditary aristocrat ( Men- cius ' “ ranks of man ” ) to the junzi as the moral ideal of the Noble Person ( exemplifying the “ nobility of Heaven ” ) . In the Dhammapada the focus is on the way of ...
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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 |