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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... ruler, if he be truly a leader, must appeal if he is not to rely on coercive means that eventually undo themselves. For Confucius this concept of true nobility and genuine leadership was a high calling. He did not underestimate the ...
... rulers and subjects alike. This is exemplified in the founding myth of a civilized order established by the sage-king Yao, whose civil virtues con- trast with the martial prowess of most dynastic founders. Examining into antiquity, we ...
... ruler. As this virtue and function are rendered in the Confucian Chronicle of Mr. Zuo (4th to 3rd c. bce), a civil process, still predicated on the family ideal, goes on to involve all classes and levels of society in the function of ...
... ruler himself who did terrible things. When a good ruler goes about rewarding good and punishing excess, he nourishes his people as if they were his children, shelters them like Heaven, accom- modates them like the earth. And when the ...
... ruler , let the artisans pur- sue their skills and thereby offer remonstrance . ” 3 In the first month , the beginning month of spring , this was done so that people might remonstrate against departures from the norm . “ Heaven's love ...
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 |