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Confucian Politics and Its Redress: From Radicalism to Gradualism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Lu Jiande
Lu Jiande*
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Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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This paper addresses the current revival of Confucianism in China. It analyzes its political issues and outcomes, underlines the possible defects in Confucianism as a theory of politics, i.e., as a science and art of government and a public ethics. It looks back to the dialectical relationship between Confucius and Mencius and shows how the presence of Confucianist elements in 20th-century politics contributed to shape the public and political sphere in contemporary China. The strains between revolutionary and reformist orientations through the last century are still at work in current social movements and reflected in political debates.

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Diogenes , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , February 2009 , pp. 83 - 93
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Copyright © ICPHS 2009

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