Two models of Confucian democracy: A contrastive analysis of Tang Junyi’s and Mou Zongsan’s political philosophy
In the final decades of the 20th century, the majority of modern Sinophone scholars believed that Confucianism was an outdated and obsolete ideology that was not only unsuitable for the development of modern science and democratic societies, but also responsible for the deep social and political cri...
| Published in: | Asian philosophy |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Carfax
2022
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Asian philosophy
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tang, Junyi 1909-1978
/ Mou, Zongsan 1909-1995
/ Confucianism
/ Democracy
/ The Modern
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism KBM Asia TK Recent history ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
science and democracy
B Taiwanese philosophy B modern Confucianism B Confucianism |
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| Summary: | In the final decades of the 20th century, the majority of modern Sinophone scholars believed that Confucianism was an outdated and obsolete ideology that was not only unsuitable for the development of modern science and democratic societies, but also responsible for the deep social and political crisis that had branded China for the previous two centuries. Modern New Confucians, however, never assumed that the Confucian system was responsible for such a situation. Most of them believed that Confucianism was compatible with science and democracy. Moreover, the majority of them assumed that the East Asian cultures would never be able to develop truly democratic structures of their societies unless they incorporated the appropriate elements of their own, i.e. Confucian, traditions. This paper critically analyses the theoretical models of Tang Junyi and Mou Zongsan on the possible revival and development of Confucian proto-democracies. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2961 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Asian philosophy
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2022.2083301 |