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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... social ritual , proper to the shi class , was a vestige of the refined culture ( wen ) Confucius identified with the leadership elite . It gave defined form to the moral values that so bordered on the spiritual order as to be ...
... social intercourse, but how relevant these social norms would be to any 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 ...
... social background charac- terized by the coexistence ( often competing ) of a religious elite identified with a Brahmin class ( claiming higher au- thority ) , and a political class identified with a ruling aris- tocracy , the kshatriya ...
... social, or cultural goods— with which individuals normally identified their selfhood, thereby propping up an illusory sense of a substantial, en- during self, where in fact none such existed. This goal was to be achieved through ...
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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 |