Public Reason Confucianism - Democratic Perfectionism and Constitutionalism in East Asia

Informationen zum Autor Sungmoon Kim is Professor of Political Theory at City University of Hong Kong. Klappentext Public reason Confucianism is a particular style of Confucian democratic perfectionism in which comprehensive Confucianism is connected with perfectionism. Zusammenfassung Public reason Confucianism is presented as the most attractive option in contemporary East Asian societies. It is a particular style of Confucian democratic perfectionism in which comprehensive Confucianism is connected with perfectionism and is fully compatible with values such as popular sovereignty! political equality! and the right to political participation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Perfectionism: 1. Confucian democratic perfectionism; 2. Public reason Confucianism - a construction; Part II. Constitutionalism: 3. Public reason Confucian constitutionalism; 4. Public equality and democratic pluralism; Part III. Civic Virtue: 5. Between moral virtue and civic virtue; 6. The right to political participation; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Sungmoon Kim, Sungmoon (City University of Hong Kong) Kim, Kim Sungmoon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107514010
• ISBN: 978-1-107-51401-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, South East Asia, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, Political structures / systems: democracy