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Public Reason Confucianism: A Construction
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Kim, Sungmoon |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | If perfectionism is understood as the state's non-neutral promotion of a valuable way of life, Confucian political theory, often pursued as a pluralist correction to global monism of liberal democracy, is ineluctably perfectionist. But how can Confucian perfectionism, committed to particular Confucian values, reconcile with the societal fact of value pluralismwithinthe putative Confucian polity? This article argues that a potential tension between Confucian perfectionism and value pluralism can be avoided by making Confucian perfectionist goods the core elements of public reason with which citizens can justify their arguments to one another and by which the state can justifiably exercise its public authority to reasonable citizens who otherwise subscribe to various comprehensive doctrines. By defining a mode of Confucian perfectionism working through Confucian public reason broadly shared by citizens aspublic reason Confucianism, this article attempts to balance the Confucian polity's internal societal pluralism and the people's collective self-determination. |
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| Ending Page | 200 |
| Page Count | 14 |
| Starting Page | 187 |
| ISSN | 00030554 |
| e-ISSN | 15375943 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055414000653 |
| Journal | American Political Science Review |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 109 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2015-02-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | American Political Science Review Political Science Reason Confucianism Confucian Public Reason |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations |
