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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... sense shared—as indeed common “human” concerns. Confucius spoke of this self- awareness as a sense of shame or as its corollary, a sense of self-respect, to which the ruler, if he be truly a leader, must appeal if he is not to rely on ...
... sense as in my earlier book, The Trouble with Confucianism. This book, which ranges widely over several civilizations and historical eras, can only be suggestive of how evolving concepts of leadership (“nobility”) and public morality ...
... sense survive today as relatively “hard” artifacts testifying to the continuities of civilized life. Because these texts are widely recognized as classics or monumental works, they have readily attracted the attention of translators ...
... sense of shame. Lead them through virtue and the rites, and they will have a sense of shame and thus correct themselves” (Analects 2:3). Here Confucius is addressing members of a vestigial ruling aristocracy and emphasizes the ...
... sense, the burden of humane service to society might be taken up by anyone; to this extent it may be seen as a universal value, and something of the kind was certainly understood by later generations of educated Confucians—Chinese ...
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 |