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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... political criti- cism and dissent in the late Zhou period . Here the Con- fucians appear to be not only the elite custodians of a tra- ditional ideal invoked to expose and condemn existing practices, but a group having the kind of ...
... political class identified with a ruling aris- tocracy , the kshatriya , originally a military aristocracy . In these works the claims of both classes are called into question and new ideals are put forward — a rough parallel to the re ...
... political or social order as such. The Buddha had left the palace and did not return to the exercise of temporal power or the reform of organized society, both of which might prove to be only illusory goals. The concept of nobility as ...
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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 |