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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... virtue and public learning. It is said: “The shi must be stout-hearted and enduring, for his burden is heavy and his Way is long. Humaneness is the burden he takes upon himself. Is it not heavy? Only in death does his Way come to an end ...
... virtue. . . . The fundamental prerequisite for perfecting constitutional government . . . is the cultivation of knowl- edge and virtue among the generality of the people. . . . (It is extremely important not to rely on politicians alone ...
... virtue ascribed to the leadership elite, had become an issue as political democracy was advanced to replace an earlier, more aristocratic and authoritarian political order. But if he calls upon “educators, religious leaders and think ...
... virtue , ” certainly Confucianism is the most likely source of a civility ( cultural refinement ) combining intellectual and moral virtues . Well - known to Meiji period readers of the Neo - Confucian Four Books , from the Emperor Meiji ...
... virtue ” as Yoshino would want to see it in his new citizens ) , another reser- vation attaches to the second component , Confucius ' char- acterization of “ virtue and the rites ” as the consensual elements of a civilized order . This ...
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 |