Nobility & civility : Asian ideals of leadership and the common good /
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 huma...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Confucius' noble person
- The noble paths of Buddha and Rama
- Buddhist spirituality and Chinese civility
- Shōtoku's constitution and the civil order in Early Japan
- Chrysanthemum and civil society in Song China
- Civil and military in Tokugawa Japan
- Citizen and subject in modern Japan
- "The people renewed" in twentieth-century China.