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
... tion—to claim authority over others, or to gain their com- pliance with the ways of civilized life, free from violence, coercion, or deception? Here we recognize the issue most broadly as one of civil- ity, even if not in the form of a ...
... tion of their own ideal values, it will be difficult to see how anyone could be expected to recognize and cope with simi- lar problems in the present. And unless some such aware- ness becomes part of the education of all, one can expect ...
... tion of translators, and most of them exist in multiple ren- ditions. Since I myself, however, have been the sponsor, ed- itor, or translator of many texts prepared for use in Asian Civilizations or Humanities courses based on primary ...
... tion from a military to a more civil function . But Yoshino is talking about a new citizenship ; Confucius is not . The phi- losopher's ideal of the Noble Person may be an inspiration to the common man , but it was not to be expected ...
... tion of a decree, they criticize it, each from the standpoint of his own school. At home they disapprove of it in their hearts; going out they criticize it in the thoroughfares. They seek a reputation by discrediting their sovereign ...
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 |