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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... Spirituality and Chinese Civility 44 4 Shōtoku's 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 ...
... spiritual order as to be undefinable , immeasurable quali- ties , unless specified in some customary form certified by past experience . But what was definable as within the reach of the elite, with their aristocratic traditions, was of ...
... spiritual emancipation, characterized by self-control, equanimity, and dedication to a religious goal: the attainment of Nirvana through sustained medita- tive practice. It is predicated on a recognition of the imper- manence and ...
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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 |