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Democracy after Virtue - Toward Pragmatic Confucian Democracy (Hardcover)
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Democracy after Virtue - Toward Pragmatic Confucian Democracy (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
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Is Confucianism compatible with democracy? Ongoing debates among
political theorists revolve around the question of whether the
overarching goal of Confucianism - serving the people's moral and
material well-being - is attainable in modern day politics without
broad democratic participation and without relying on a "one
person, one vote" system. One side of the debate - voiced by
"traditional" Confucian meritocrats - argues that only certain
people are equipped with the moral character needed to lead and
ensure broad public well-being. They emphasize moral virtue over
civic virtue and the family over the state as the quintessential
public institution. Moreover, they believe that a system of rule
headed by meritorious elites can better handle complex modern
public affairs than representative democracy. The other side -
voiced by Confucian democrats - argues that unless all citizens
participate equally in the public sphere, the kind of moral growth
Confucianism emphasizes cannot be fully attained. Despite notable
differences in political orientation, scholars of both positions
acknowledge that democracy is largely of instrumental value for
realizing Confucian moral ends in modern society. It would seem
that Confucians of both types have largely dismissed democracy as a
political system that can mediate clashing values and political
views - or even that Confucian democracy is a system marked by
pluralism. In this book, Sungmoon Kim lays out a normative theory
of Confucian democracy - pragmatic Confucian democracy - to address
questions of the right to political participation, instrumental and
intrinsic values of democracy, democratic procedure and substance,
punishment and criminal justice, social and economic justice, and
humanitarian intervention. As such, this project is not only
relevant to the much debated topic of Confucian democracy as a
cultural alternative to Western-style liberal democracy in East
Asia, but it further investigates the philosophical implications of
the idea and institution of Confucian democracy in normative
democratic theory, criminal justice, distributive justice, and just
war. Ultimately, Kim shows us that the question is not so much
about the compatibility of Confucianism and democracy, but of how
the two systems can benefit from each other.
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