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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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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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.


