A Non‐Sectarian Comprehensive Confucianism?—On Kim's Public Reason Confucianism

Wong, Baldwin

doi:10.1111/josp.12292

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“…Let us put aside the question of whether public reason Confucianism passes the test of feasibility and intelligibility (Angle 2019;Chan 2019;Wong 2019;Jin 2021), to be both philosophically significant and recognizable as belonging to the Confucian tradition. Regardless of the answer, Kim's theory remains a substantial voice in discussing how Confucian political theory can engage with liberal democracy.…”

Section: Sungmoon Kim's Public Reason Confucianismmentioning

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Li Zehou’s Ideas on Chinese Modernity Revisited

Machajek,

Świątczak-Borowy

2024

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We propose Li Zehou’s idea of “Western Learning for Substance, Chinese Learning for Function” (Xi ti Zhong yong 西體中用) as an interpretative framework for two distinct theories: Sungmoon Kim’s political theory of public reason Confucianism and Yan Lianke’s literary theory of mythorealism. This paper aims to show that Xi ti Zhong yong can provide a unified explanatory framework for these two apparently distinct theories. Second, we show that Xi ti Zhong yong can be applied even more broadly to other phenomena occurring in contemporary discourses on China. In particular, we show that it provides new interpretative perspectives in political philosophy and literary theory.

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Section: Sungmoon Kim's Public Reason Confucianismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Li Zehou’s Ideas on Chinese Modernity Revisited

Machajek,

Świątczak-Borowy

2024

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“…Confucianism comes into play only after this basic framework of the "wide view of moderate perfectionism" is set up. Wong (2019) pushes the edge of perfectionism even further by arguing that the only legitimate role that Confucian perfectionist values can play is in the civil society, not in state institutions or policy initiatives. Li (2020, ch.…”

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What Confucianism and for Whom? The Value and Dilemma of Invoking Confucianism in Confucian Political Theories

Jin

2021

J Value Inquiry

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“…However, I am afraid that Confucianism could hardly make any novel contributions under the constraint of public reason in the political domain. A novel contribution means an idea or argument that “no one has ever thought of before, but which, once stated, sounds plausible or interesting” (Waldron, 1993, p. 838). Due to the constraint of public reason, the proposals that Confucians could offer must be those that could be justified by public reasons, thereby limiting the range of proposals to those that have probably been thought of and suggested by non‐Confucians before.…”

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“…Its contribution does not lie in offering some novel proposals about laws and policies. Rather, its contribution should be seen in educating just citizens and strengthening the stability of a just society (Wong, 2019a, p. 156). Due to the limit of space, I am unable to explore how Confucianism could play a complementary role in every private sphere.…”

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Junzi living in liberal democracy: What role could Confucianism play in political liberalism?

Wong

2021

The Philosophical Forum

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It has been widely argued that East Asian governments should be permitted to promote Confucian values. Recently, Zhuoyao Li rejected this view and advocates that East Asian governments should be neutral to all cultures and religions, including Confucianism. Nevertheless, Li believes that Confucianism does not loses its significance in a political liberal state because Confucians can still propose laws and policies, so long as their proposals are justified by public reason. In this paper, I argue that Li misunderstands the true significance of Confucianism in his model. Under the constraint of public reason, Confucians can hardly give any novel input in public deliberation. Rather, I believe that the contribution of Confucianism is to educate citizens to become fully just in the private sphere. Citizens may learn to be unjust if injustices are common in the private sphere. However, a political liberal state would be criticized as being overly invasive if it directly regulates the private sphere. Hence, I propose a division of educational labour between political liberalism and Confucianism in the public and private sphere. Finally, I use the Confucian workplace as an example to show how rituals in the workplace can enhance citizens’ sense of justice in the private sphere.

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A Non‐Sectarian Comprehensive Confucianism?—On Kim's Public Reason Confucianism

Cited by 7 publications

References 30 publications

Li Zehou’s Ideas on Chinese Modernity Revisited

Li Zehou’s Ideas on Chinese Modernity Revisited

What Confucianism and for Whom? The Value and Dilemma of Invoking Confucianism in Confucian Political Theories

Junzi living in liberal democracy: What role could Confucianism play in political liberalism?

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