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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... ) Shi Kuang was attending the ruler of Jin. The latter said, “The people of Wei have driven out their ruler—what a ter- rible thing!” Shi Kuang replied, “Perhaps it was the ruler himself who 8 Confucius' Noble Person.
... 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 people serve their ruler, they ...
... to ask whether some- thing similar to this Chinese nobility, civility, and civil dis- course is to be found in the early texts of the emerging Indian civilization. The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama 2 India of 12 Confucius' Noble Person.
... things, concepts, and values—even ordinary moral, 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 ...
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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 |