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? |
From inside the book
... 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 147 Citizen and ...
... China (somewhat like the knights or gentlemen of the medieval West) to put on the shining armor of moral 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 ...
... Chinese word xin , translated here as “ confidence , ” can also be understood as “ trust . ” In either case , a fiduciary concept of governance and a reliance on the civil arts ( wen ) , rather than the military ( wu ) , are indicated ...
... Chinese , Koreans , and Japanese — down through the ages . Yet learning and education , which Confucius and his successors Mencius and Xunzi saw as essential to the fulfillment of the leadership responsibility , were not avail- able to ...
... relationship—filiality and brotherliness es- pecially—provide the basis of a “constitutional” dynastic succession and political due process. What is striking in the Chinese case is that within Confucius' Noble Person 7.
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 |