TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bai,Tongdong
TI  - Against Political Equality: The Confucian Case 
T2  - The Princeton-China Series
SN  - 9780691195995
AV  - JA84.C6 
U1  - 320.01/0951 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Confucianism and state
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Political science
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Accountability
KW  - Analects
KW  - Aristocracy
KW  - Authoritarianism
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Calculation
KW  - Centralized government
KW  - Chinese culture
KW  - Chinese philosophy
KW  - Code of conduct
KW  - Colonialism
KW  - Communism
KW  - Communitarianism
KW  - Confucianism
KW  - Confucius
KW  - Constitutionalism
KW  - Criticism
KW  - D. C. Lau
KW  - Daniel A. Bell
KW  - De facto
KW  - Demagogue
KW  - Democratization
KW  - Doctrine
KW  - Duke Huan of Qi
KW  - Environmental issue
KW  - Equal opportunity
KW  - Explanation
KW  - Feudalism
KW  - Filial piety
KW  - Good governance
KW  - Governance
KW  - Government
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Individualism
KW  - Institution
KW  - Intellectual
KW  - International relations
KW  - John Rawls
KW  - Justice as Fairness
KW  - Left-wing politics
KW  - Legislator
KW  - Legitimacy (political)
KW  - Liberal democracy
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Mao Zedong
KW  - Maoism
KW  - Market economy
KW  - Mencius
KW  - Meritocracy
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Moral development
KW  - Moral relativism
KW  - Morality
KW  - Nation state
KW  - Natural and legal rights
KW  - Neo-Confucianism
KW  - Nobility
KW  - Of Education
KW  - Opportunism
KW  - Oppression
KW  - Pacifism
KW  - Patriotism
KW  - Philosopher
KW  - Political Liberalism
KW  - Political correctness
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Political philosophy
KW  - Politician
KW  - Politics
KW  - Public interest
KW  - Public participation
KW  - Realpolitik
KW  - Regime
KW  - Religion
KW  - Representative democracy
KW  - Republic (Plato)
KW  - Requirement
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Rule of law
KW  - Ruler
KW  - Scholar-official
KW  - Self-interest
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - State (polity)
KW  - Suggestion
KW  - Tax
KW  - Technology
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - Traditional Chinese characters
KW  - Transliteration
KW  - Treatise
KW  - Utilitarianism
KW  - Voting
KW  - Warring States period
KW  - Western philosophy
KW  - Western world
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Notes on Abbreviations, Key Terms, and Translations --; 1. Why Confucianism? Which Confucianism? --; 2. Confucianism on Political Legitimacy : For the People, of the People, but Not by the People --; 3. A Confucian Hybrid Regime as an Answer to Democratic Problems --; 4. The Superiority of the Confucian Hybrid Regime Defended --; 5. Compassion as the New Social Glue in the Society of Strangers --; 6. Conflict in the Expansion of Care: The Private versus the Public --; 7. Tian Xia: A Confucian Model of National Identity and International Relations --; 8. Humane Responsibility Overrides Sovereignty: A Confucian Theory of Just War --; 9. A Confucian Theory of Rights --; Postscript --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - What might a viable political alternative to liberal democracy look like? In Against Political Equality, Tongdong Bai offers a possibility inspired by Confucian ideas.Bai argues that domestic governance influenced by Confucianism can embrace the liberal aspects of democracy along with the democratic ideas of equal opportunities and governmental accountability to the people. But Confucianism would give more political decision-making power to those with the moral, practical, and intellectual capabilities of caring for the people. While most democratic thinkers still focus on strengthening equality to cure the ills of democracy, the proposed hybrid regime—made up of Confucian-inspired meritocratic characteristics combined with democratic elements and a quasi-liberal system of laws and rights—recognizes that egalitarian qualities sometimes conflict with good governance and the protection of liberties, and defends liberal aspects by restricting democratic ones. Bai applies his views to the international realm by supporting a hierarchical order based on how humane each state is toward its own and other peoples, and on the principle of international interventions whereby humane responsibilities override sovereignty.Exploring the deficiencies posed by many liberal democracies, Against Political Equality presents a novel Confucian-engendered alternative for solving today’s political problems
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