Thirdly, "meritocracy" is built upon foundational individualism and focuses on the individual performance and achievement. Although Confucian political tradition and the Western conception of meritocracy share some functional similarities, using the synthesized term "Confucian meritocracy" to introduce the ...
And so what’s interesting is that in the Western tradition, probably beginning in Athens before the classical period, you begin to see the very beginning of monogamous marriage getting imposed where Greek men were limited to only one Athenian wife. Although they could have as many select sex ...
That is a broad and interesting discussion that is not unrelated to political liberalism and instead shares roots with it. It was either Mill or Locke that noted that the use of the same term for both things (that is, liberty) was unfortunate. I don’t think so though, I think its app...
What Is “Society”? Chapter pp 17–40 Cite this chapter Beyond the Western Liberal Order Ryoko Nakano Part of the book series:Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought((PMHIT)) 128Accesses Abstract This chapter describes Yanaihara’s concept of society (shakai) as a point of ...
Utilitarianism is a tradition of ethical philosophy that's associated with Jeremy Bentham (1747-1832) andJohn Stuart Mill(1806-1873), two British philosophers, economists, and political thinkers. The theory holds that an action is right if it tends to promote happiness. It's wrong if it tends...
Limited government, in its modern conception, originated out of the classical liberal tradition in Europe. This tradition emphasized therights of the individual, in contrast to the monarchies and theocratic governments that dominated Europe at that time. ...
(Leung and Lee2014; Chan2018; Eckert and Chadha2013; Lowenstein-Barkai2023). However, despite creators and audiences from all over the world getting involved and articulating a broad variety of viewpoints, there remained an outsized focus on Western- and often US-centered issues. This is ...
20 CHAPTER 1: LEADERSHIP—WHAT IS IT? constitution in the world. Given his patriotic efforts, Dickinson earned a spot in U.S. history as the "Penman of the Revolution." Benjamin Rush was born in 1745 on a farm near Philadelphia. He was raised in the Calvinist tradition. He earned his ...
"Liberal education is education in culture." In what culture?Our answer is:culture in the sense of the Western tradition.Yet Western culture is only one among many cultures.By limiting ourselves to Western culture,do we not condemn liberal education to a kind of parochialism,and is not ...
Our answer is: culture in the sense of the Western tradition. Yet Western culture is only one among many cultures. By limiting ourselves to Western culture, do we not condemn liberal education to a kind of parochialism, and is not parochialism incompatible with the liberalism, the generosity, ...