American Civilization Portrayed in Ancient ConfucianismAlgora Publishing, 2003 - 228 עמודים Scholars have analyzed Chinese society in the light of contemporary Western social and natural sciences for centuries. This compact volume turns the tables and opens tantalizing new perspectives on the American civilization by examining it through the lens of ancient Confucianism. The current work invites Americans to step through the looking glass -- backwards, this time -- and view ourselves from a Confucian perspective. In his analysis, Zhang draws together references to the I Ching, Leibniz, Tocqueville, Lipset and Aristotle, a judicious few statistics such as crime rate and economic growth, and the lions of Chinese philosophy. Chapter 1: The American Civilization and Ancient Confucianism in Open Society Chapter 2: "All Men Are Created Equal" Versus All Men Are Born Equal Chapter 3: Democracy and Law Chapter 4: Education and Knowledge Chapter 5: Economic Freedom and Development Chapter 6: The American Universalism and Rational Civilizations in the Future |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 43
עמוד ix
... Industrialization and Democratization of the Confucian Regions Economic Dynamics — Growth and Development Japan versus China in the Industrial Race Knowledge and Value Economic Structures with Time and Space Singapore's Modernization ...
... Industrialization and Democratization of the Confucian Regions Economic Dynamics — Growth and Development Japan versus China in the Industrial Race Knowledge and Value Economic Structures with Time and Space Singapore's Modernization ...
עמוד 3
... South Korea, North Korea, and Singapore). In Japan versus China in the Industrial Race (Zhang, 1998), issues related to why Japan could so rapidly have become industrialized and why China was so slow 3 Preface and Acknowledgements.
... South Korea, North Korea, and Singapore). In Japan versus China in the Industrial Race (Zhang, 1998), issues related to why Japan could so rapidly have become industrialized and why China was so slow 3 Preface and Acknowledgements.
עמוד 4
Wei-Bin Zhang. rapidly have become industrialized and why China was so slow in its take-off are examined within a broad ... Industrialization and Democratization in Taiwan (Zhang, forthcoming in 2003), the rapid democratization of the ...
Wei-Bin Zhang. rapidly have become industrialized and why China was so slow in its take-off are examined within a broad ... Industrialization and Democratization in Taiwan (Zhang, forthcoming in 2003), the rapid democratization of the ...
עמוד 7
... industrialized . Japan's economic position in the world has changed dramatically since the end of the Second World ... industrialization after the Second World War . The common feature of these four regions is that they were colonized ...
... industrialized . Japan's economic position in the world has changed dramatically since the end of the Second World ... industrialization after the Second World War . The common feature of these four regions is that they were colonized ...
עמוד 12
... industrialization and democratization of the Confucian regions); (5) a hierarchical social structure supported by talent and merit (which is essential for establishing social order according to virtue, merit and education); (6) a ...
... industrialization and democratization of the Confucian regions); (5) a hierarchical social structure supported by talent and merit (which is essential for establishing social order according to virtue, merit and education); (6) a ...
תוכן
1 | |
5 | |
33 | |
57 | |
IV Education and Knowledge | 101 |
V Economic Freedom and Development | 127 |
VI American Universalism and Rational Civili zations in the Future | 171 |
References | 205 |
Preface and Acknowledgements | 1 |
I The American Civilization and Ancient Confucianism in An Open Society | 5 |
II All Men Are Created Equal Versus All Men Are Born Equal | 33 |
III Democracy and Law | 57 |
IV Education and Knowledge | 101 |
V Economic Freedom and Development | 127 |
VI American Universalism and Rational Civili zations in the Future | 171 |
References | 205 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
According Adam Smith altruism American civilization ancient Confucianism argued become behavior believed benefit century chaos chaos theory Chiang Ching-kuo China Chinese Ching Clash of Civilizations conflict Confucian civilization Confucian regions Confucian tradition contemporary cultivate culture democracy democratic dynamics economic development economic growth emphasized equality ethnic freedom global government intervention groups Han Chinese Hsün Tzu human capital ideas immigrants income increased individual industrialization inequality institutions Japan Japanese justice knowledge labor learning Leibniz leisure logistic map mainland mainland China Manchu means Mencius mind modern moral natural Neo-Confucianism Newtonian nonlinear observed one’s overseas Chinese people’s philosophy political population poverty Qing Dynasty rational civilizations religion rich role ruler rules of propriety Smith and Confucius social and economic society structures superior Taiwan tangwai theory things Tocqueville United universal values virtue vision wealth welfare Western civilization Zhang
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 202 - The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue, throughout the empire, *first ordered well their own States. Wishing to order well their States, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their...
עמוד 73 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertions, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
עמוד 40 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
עמוד 64 - Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap; let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation...
עמוד 74 - He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life.
עמוד 87 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
עמוד 143 - ... the sole end which they propose from the labours of all the thousands whom they employ, be the gratification of their own vain and insatiable desires, they divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements. They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society,...
עמוד 16 - Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective situation of the beings who compose it an intelligence sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis it would embrace in the same formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the lightest atom...
עמוד 163 - By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.
עמוד 72 - And we define: the democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote.