Confucian Democracy : A Deweyan Reconstruction

by Tan, Sor-Hoon

• ISBN13: 9780791458891
• ISBN10: 079145889X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

A volume in the SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Roger T. Ames, editor

Author Biography

Sor-hoon Tan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Chapter 1 Confucian Democracy?	1	(16)
Divining the Future	1	(5)
Whose Confucianism?	6	(3)
Which Democracy?	9	(2)
Liberals and Communitarians	11	(3)
Dewey and Confucius	14	(3)
Chapter 2 Social Individuals	17	(46)
Liberal Self and Autonomy	17	(5)
Unique Rather Than Autonomous Individuals	22	(3)
Dewey's Social Self-in-the-Making	25	(4)
Constructing a Confucian Conception of Self	29	(3)
Tension between Distinctness and Connectedness	32	(7)
Choice in the Liberal-Communitarian Debate	39	(2)
Dewey On Willing and Choosing	41	(4)
Confucian Choice: Learning and Thinking	45	(5)
Confucian Personal Commitment	50	(3)
Individuality and Organic Sociality	53	(10)
Chapter 3 Harmonious Communities	63	(50)
Society and Community	63	(2)
Nonexclusionary Community	65	(10)
The Art of Community: Achieving Harmony	75	(4)
Achieving Harmony through Confucian Ritual Practice	79	(9)
The Science of Community: Cooperative Inquiry	88	(10)
Equality and Differentiated Orders	98	(10)
Equality in Human Relations	108	(5)
Chapter 4 Ethico-Political Orders	113	(44)
The Political Domains of Procedural Republics	113	(5)
Ethico-Political Ends	118	(4)
Dewey on Politics in Ancient China	122	(3)
The Sage-King: An Ideal in Question	125	(2)
Exemplary Persons: Ethico-Political Ends-in-View	127	(5)
People As Basis (minben)	132	(4)
The Role of the People in Tianming	136	(9)
Are People Good Enough for Self-Government?	145	(7)
Faith in People	152	(5)
Chapter 5 Authoritative Freedom	157	(44)
Negative and Positive Freedoms	158	(4)
Freedom As Growth	162	(5)
Confucian Positive Freedom	167	(8)
Right to Speak and Right Speech	175	(8)
Rights or Rites?	183	(4)
Authoritative versus Authoritarian	187	(7)
Coercion and Authority in Imperfect Situations	194	(7)
Chapter 6 Cultivating Democracy	201	(10)
Reconstructing Confucianism and Democracy	201	(2)
Democracy and the Realpolitik of Stability	203	(8)
Notes	211	(22)
References	233	(20)
Index	253