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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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: De Bary, Wm. Theodore, 1919-2017
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.