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Lead Them with Virtue - A Confucian Alternative to War (Hardcover)
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Lead Them with Virtue - A Confucian Alternative to War (Hardcover)
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Recent scholarship has framed early Confucians as just war
theorists with relatively permissive criteria for the just use of
violence. Lead Them with Virtue: A Confucian Alternative to War
makes the case that such interpretations conflict with what Mencius
and Xunzi were trying to do. Kurtis Hagen argues that they both
strove to prevent war by contrasting the situations of their day
with idealized versions of the semi-mythic activities of
sage-kings, which represent appropriate use of the military. These
stories imply support for the offensive use of the military only
when actual war-with its characteristic horrors-would not ensue.
Following this logic, military interventions are just only in
circumstances that do not actually occur. Confucians advocate,
instead, a long-term strategy of ameliorating unjust circumstances
by leveraging the credibility and influence that stems from
consistently practicing genuinely benevolent governance. Passages
that imply pacifistic readings of these texts are routinely
dismissed by scholars as too naive to be taken seriously. Hagen
argues that the relatively pacifistic position implied by these
passages is not in fact naive, but is rather reasonable, and indeed
should be supported, at least by contemporary Confucians.
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