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Subject(s)

• Mou, Zongsan [Browse]
• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831 [Browse]
• Confucianism [Browse]
• Liberalism [Browse]

Series

• SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture [More in this series]
• Suny series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Summary note

• "Offers a renovated form of Confucian liberalism that forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism"-- Provided by publisher.
• 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 Zougsan, 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 result--Confucian liberalism--is 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"--back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-365) and index.

Contents

• Part I: Confucian Ethics
• Part II: Civil Liberalism
• Part III: Perfectionist Liberalism.

ISBN

• 9781438491110
• 1438491115 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2022013287

OCLC

1330690389

Other standard number

• 40031559299

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