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Against Political Equality : The Confucian Case /

What might a viable political alternative to liberal democracy look like? In Against Political Equality, Tongdong Bai offers a possibility inspired by Confucian ideas. Bai argues that domestic governance influenced by Confucianism can embrace the liberal aspects of democracy along with the democrati...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Bai, Tongdong (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Why Confucianism? Which Confucianism?
  • Confucianism on political legitimacy: for the people, of the people, but not by the people
  • A Confucian hybrid regime as an answer to democratic problems
  • The superiority of the Confucian hybrid regime defended
  • Compassion as the new social glue in the society of strangers
  • Conflict in the expansion of care: the private versus the public
  • Tian Xia: a Confucian model of national identity and international relations
  • Humane responsibility overrides sovereignty: a Confucian theory of just war
  • A Confucian theory of rights
  • Postscript.