Confucian Political Philosophy

This book debates the values and ideals of Confucian politicsharmony, virtue, freedom, justice, orderand what these ideals mean for Confucian political philosophy today. The authors deliberate these eminent topics in five debates centering on recent innovative and influential publications in the field. Challenging and building on those works, the dialogues consider the roles of benevolence, family determination, public reason, distributive justice, and social stability in Confucian political philosophy. In response, the authors defend their views and evaluate their critics in turn. Taking up a broad range of crucial issuesautonomy, liberty, democracy, political legitimacy, human welfarethese author-meets-critic debates will appeal to scholars interested in political, comparative, and East Asian philosophy. Their interlaced themes weave a portrait of what is at stake in discussing Confucian values and theory. Most importantly, they engage and develop the state of the field of Confucian political philosophy today.

Includes a unique collection of essays covering the status quo within Confucian political philosophy Covers a broad range of issues and timely discussion of top-tier scholarship in the field Delves into issues of autonomy, liberty, democracy, political legitimacy, virtue, and welfare

Auteur
Robert A. Carleo III (M.Phil. Chinese Philosophy, Fudan University; Ph.D. Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) works principally on comparative and Chinese moral and political theory. His writing can be found in Philosophy East and West, Asian Studies, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, and Journal of World Philosophies, as well as on Bloomsbury Academic and Open Court Press. His translations of Chinese philosophy have been published by Harvard University Press, Brill, Taylor and Francis, and Springer, one of which was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title of 2019 by the American Library Association's Choice magazine.

Yong Huang, Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, is founding editor of Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy and of Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy, the first-ever companion series exclusively focused on Chinese philosophy. He has founded several other book series, as well, including the ACPA Series in Chinese andComparative Philosophy, and has served as co-chair of the Confucian Tradition Group of American Academy of Religion, co-chair of the University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies at Columbia University, and President the of Association of Chinese Philosophers in America. In addition, he sits on almost 20 editorial boards of scholarly journals and book series in both English and Chinese. With interests in both philosophy and religion in both Western and Chinese traditions, his research focuses on ethical and political issues from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.

Contenu
Introduction: Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy.- Part I. Harmony.- Chapter 1 Harmony as a Manifestation of the Central Confucian Concept of BenevolenceA Critique of Chenyang Li's The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony.- Chapter 2 Harmony and Ren: A Response to Leung Yat Hung's Critique of The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony.- Part II. Family Determination.- Chapter 3 On Family Determination in Reconstructionist Confucianism.- Chapter 4 Which Confucianism? And What Liberty?.- Part III. Public Reason.- Chapter 5 On Confucian Public Reason.- Chapter 6 Confucian Public Reason Beyond Rawls.- Part IV. Justice.- Chapter 7 Distributive Justice in Pre-Qin Confucianism: Equality, Priority, and Sufficiency.- Chapter 8 Thinking About Justice and Interpreting the Analects.- Part V. Order and Virtue.- Chapter 9 Virtue-Based Politics: A Dialogue with Loubna El Amine's New Interpretation of Classical Confucian Political Thought.- Chapter 10 The Loftiness of Political OrderA Response to CHAN Leong.