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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... values and standards of culture has been a feature of expanding civilizations since the dawn of history, and the problems attendant upon it (as well as the response to these) offer a perspective on the di- lemmas of our own era. If ...
... values need to be understood as historically evolv- ing, and in that process as marked by much ambiguity and contestation—contestation that has arisen especially in multicultural encounters, wherein ideals are almost always compromised ...
... values and new ideas appropriate to a modernizing situation. In the Japanese case, the received values could be summed up in terms of the basic Confucian ethic popular- ized in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the ...
... values of the leadership class — here represented by the Noble Person ( junzi ) whose moral stature and wis- dom give real meaning and value to the junzi as a mem- ber of the hereditary aristocracy , at a time when that class was giving ...
... values : Zigong asked about government . The Master said : “ Suf- ficient food , sufficient arms , and the ... value system is assumed between the leader and the led , but without necessarily equating the two roles . The leadership role ...
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 |