Against Political Equality : : The Confucian Case / / Tongdong Bai.
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 democratic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Princeton-China Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Abbreviations, Key Terms, and Translations
- 1. Why Confucianism? Which Confucianism?
- 2. Confucianism on Political Legitimacy : For the People, of the People, but Not by the People
- 3. A Confucian Hybrid Regime as an Answer to Democratic Problems
- 4. The Superiority of the Confucian Hybrid Regime Defended
- 5. Compassion as the New Social Glue in the Society of Strangers
- 6. Conflict in the Expansion of Care: The Private versus the Public
- 7. Tian Xia: A Confucian Model of National Identity and International Relations
- 8. Humane Responsibility Overrides Sovereignty: A Confucian Theory of Just War
- 9. A Confucian Theory of Rights
- Postscript
- References
- Index