On Confucian communitarianism

Frontiers of Philosophy in China - Tập 2 Số 4 - Trang 475-487 - 2007
HU Wei-xi1
1Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China#TAB#

Tóm tắt

As a social and political thought, communitarian ideas appeared in the Pre-Qin Confucianism. By the Song Dynasty, it had become a systematic theory, namely, the learning of the “four books.” As a social and political theory, not only can Confucian communitarianism contribute to Western liberalism, but it can also be an intellectual resource for the development of democracy in East Asian countries and regions. The future of the Confucian communitarianism lies in its critique of itself and its discourse with Western liberalism, by which Confucianism evolves from communitarianism into liberalism.

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Tài liệu tham khảo

Hu Weixi (2006). Analysis of community. Expanding Horizons, No. 1

Liu Zhongde, Luo Zhiye, ed (1992). The Chinese / English Four Books (trans. Legge J). Changsha: Hunan Chubanshe

Zhu Xi (1983). Sishu zhangju jizhu 四书章句集注 (Collected Commentaries on the “Four Books”), Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju

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Frontiers of Philosophy in China

Tập 2 Số 4

475-487

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