Two models of Confucian democracy : a contrastive analysis of Tang Junyi's and Mou Zongsan's political philosophy

Rošker, Jana S. (author)

In the final decades of the 20th century, the majority of modern Sinophone scholars believed that Confucianism was an outdated and obsolete ideology that was not only unsuitable for the development of modern science and democratic societies, but also responsible for the deep social and political crisis that had branded China for the previous two centuries. Modern New Confucians, however, never assumed that the Confucian system was responsible for such a situation. Most of them believed that Confucianism was compatible with science and democracy. Moreover, the majority of them assumed that the East Asian cultures would never be able to develop truly democratic structures of their societies unless they incorporated the appropriate elements of their own, i.e. Confucian, traditions. This paper critically analyses the theoretical models of Tang Junyi and Mou Zongsan on the possible revival and development of Confucian proto-democracies.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Confucianism, modern Confucianism, Taiwanese philosophy, science and democracy
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 350–363
• Numbering: Vol. 32, no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-137277
• UDC: 1:221.7(529)
• ISSN on article: 1469-2961
• DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2022.2083301
• COBISS.SI-ID: 111066883
• Publication date in RUL: 09.06.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Asian philosophy
• Shortened title: Asian philos.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 1469-2961
• COBISS.SI-ID: 56177762

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: konfucijanstvo, moderno konfucijanstvo, tajvanska filozofija, znanost in demokracija