SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Mou Zongsan and Hegelian Liberalism
- 352 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About This Book
Does Confucianism conflict with liberalism? Confucian Liberalism sheds new light on this long-standing debate entwined with the discourse of Chinese modernity. Focusing on the legacy of Mou Zongsan, the book significantly recasts the moral character and political ideal of Confucianism, accompanied by a Hegelian retreatment of the multiple facets of Western modernity and its core values, such as individuality, self-realization, democracy, civilized society, citizenship, public good, freedom, and human rights. The book offers a culturally sensitive way of reevaluating liberal language and forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism. The resultâConfucian liberalismâis akin to civil liberalism, in that it rests the form of liberal democracy on the content of "Confucian democratic civility." It is also comparable to perfectionist liberalism, endorsing a nondominant concept of the common good surrounded by a set of "Confucian governing and civic virtues."
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Confucianism Meets Liberalism
- Part I: Confucian Ethics
- Part II: Civil Liberalism
- Part III: Perfectionist Liberalism
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover