Tongdong Bai
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3943474 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tongdong Bai |
| NOMBRES | Tongdong |
| APELLIDO | Bai |
| FIRMA | BAI T |
| AFILIACIONES | Fudan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7420-4589 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Save liberalism through (whose?) soulcraft – a critical review of Liberalism as a Way of Life
In his book, Liberalism as a Way of Life, acknowledging the fact that today, many people in a liberal society do not have any other comprehensive doctrines than liberalism, and thus calling for putting aside later Rawls’s cautious project that is focused on an account of liberal citizen only, Alexandre Lefebvre tries to offer an account of how to be a liberal person by constructing a liberal comprehensive doctrine and a soulcraft for such a perso…
The Edge of Civilizations
A Moderate, A-metaphysical, and Hierarchical Proposal to Save Liberal Orders—Response to Critics
Confucianism and Same-Sex Marriage
In the majority opinion by the U.S. Supreme Court over same-sex marriage, a claim by Confucius was quoted, which led to an uproar among Confucian scholars in mainland China. In this article, I will first explain the background of the debate over same-sex marriage in the United States, and why Confucius's claim was quoted. I will then show how a contemporary Confucian philosopher Zhang Xianglong addressed the issue of same-sex marriage from a Conf…
The Pandemic’s Challenges to Liberal Democracy
The -19 pandemic highlights the following problems: the balance between the private and the public within a liberal framework; the merits and the limits of a liberal democracy in governance; and the inadequacy of a nation-states-led global order. In light of these problems, I will offer some Confucian alternatives
Against Political Equality
What might a viable political alternative to liberal democracy look like? In Against Political Equality, Tongdong Bai offers a possibility inspired by Confucian ideas.Bai argues that domestic governance influenced by Confucianism can embrace the liberal aspects of democracy along with the democratic ideas of equal opportunities and governmental accountability to the people. But Confucianism would give more political decision-making power to those…
Against Political Equality
Against Political Equality
This book argues that domestic governance influenced by Confucianism can embrace the liberal aspects of democracy along with the democratic ideas of equal opportunities and governmental accountability to the people. But Confucianism would give more political decision-making power to those with the moral, practical, and intellectual capabilities of caring for the people. While most democratic thinkers still focus on strengthening equality to cure …
Against Political Equality
Early Confucian Political Philosophy and Its Contemporary Relevance
The East Asian Challenge for Democracy
The rise of China, along with problems of governance in democratic countries, has reinvigorated the theory of political meritocracy. But what is the theory of political meritocracy and how can it set standards for evaluating political progress (and regress)? To help answer these questions, this volume gathers a series of commissioned research papers from an interdisciplinary group of leading philosophers, historians and social scientists. The res…
An Old Mandate for a New State
China
China is a rising economic and political power. But what is the message of this rise? Tongdong Bai addresses this increasingly pressing question by examining the rich history of political theories and practices from China’s past, and showing how it impacts upon the present. Chinese political traditions are often viewed negatively as ‘authoritarian’ (in contrast with 'Western' democratic traditions), but the historical reality is much more complex…
Guest editor’s words
Studies in analytic philosophy in China
How to Rule Without Taking Unnatural Actions (无为而治)
In this essay, the understanding of naturalness and of ruling without taking unnatural actions in the Laozi will be clarified and elaborated on, and it will be argued that the Laozi offers a theoretically adequate and realistic proposal to address both the problems of its times and some of the problems of modernity.
The Price of Serving Meat—On Confucius's and Mencius's Views of Human and Animal Rights
The apparent conflict between some fundamental ideas of Confucianism and of rights seems to render Confucianism incompatible with rights. I will illustrate the general strategies, based upon an insight of the later Rawls, to solve the incompatibility problem. I will then show how these strategies can help us to develop a Confucian account of animal rights, which, by way of example, demonstrates how Confucianism can endorse and develop unique and …
A Mencian Version of Limited Democracy
China
Introduction * 1. Modernity before its time: the historical context of 'classical' Chinese political thought * 2. The middle way of Confucianism: humanity as the new social glue * 3. The middle way of Confucianism: equality-based mobile hierarchy * 4. Daoism: return to an age of innocence * 5. The Legalists: builders of modern bureaucracy and institutions * 6. Later developments: the middle way * Conclusion: The contemporary relevance of traditio…
A Mencian Version of Limited Democracy
Confucianism and Same-Sex Marriage
In the majority opinion by the U.S. Supreme Court over same-sex marriage, a claim by Confucius was quoted, which led to an uproar among Confucian scholars in mainland China. In this article, I will first explain the background of the debate over same-sex marriage in the United States, and why Confucius's claim was quoted. I will then show how a contemporary Confucian philosopher Zhang Xianglong addressed the issue of same-sex marriage from a Conf…
Studies in analytic philosophy in China
A Mencian Version of Limited Democracy
How to Rule Without Taking Unnatural Actions (无为而治)
In this essay, the understanding of naturalness and of ruling without taking unnatural actions in the Laozi will be clarified and elaborated on, and it will be argued that the Laozi offers a theoretically adequate and realistic proposal to address both the problems of its times and some of the problems of modernity.
The Price of Serving Meat—On Confucius's and Mencius's Views of Human and Animal Rights
The apparent conflict between some fundamental ideas of Confucianism and of rights seems to render Confucianism incompatible with rights. I will illustrate the general strategies, based upon an insight of the later Rawls, to solve the incompatibility problem. I will then show how these strategies can help us to develop a Confucian account of animal rights, which, by way of example, demonstrates how Confucianism can endorse and develop unique and …
Guest editor’s words
Studies in analytic philosophy in China
An Old Mandate for a New State
China
China is a rising economic and political power. But what is the message of this rise? Tongdong Bai addresses this increasingly pressing question by examining the rich history of political theories and practices from China’s past, and showing how it impacts upon the present. Chinese political traditions are often viewed negatively as ‘authoritarian’ (in contrast with 'Western' democratic traditions), but the historical reality is much more complex…
The East Asian Challenge for Democracy
The rise of China, along with problems of governance in democratic countries, has reinvigorated the theory of political meritocracy. But what is the theory of political meritocracy and how can it set standards for evaluating political progress (and regress)? To help answer these questions, this volume gathers a series of commissioned research papers from an interdisciplinary group of leading philosophers, historians and social scientists. The res…
Early Confucian Political Philosophy and Its Contemporary Relevance
Against Political Equality
Against Political Equality
This book argues that domestic governance influenced by Confucianism can embrace the liberal aspects of democracy along with the democratic ideas of equal opportunities and governmental accountability to the people. But Confucianism would give more political decision-making power to those with the moral, practical, and intellectual capabilities of caring for the people. While most democratic thinkers still focus on strengthening equality to cure …
Against Political Equality
The Pandemic’s Challenges to Liberal Democracy
The -19 pandemic highlights the following problems: the balance between the private and the public within a liberal framework; the merits and the limits of a liberal democracy in governance; and the inadequacy of a nation-states-led global order. In light of these problems, I will offer some Confucian alternatives
Against Political Equality
What might a viable political alternative to liberal democracy look like? In Against Political Equality, Tongdong Bai offers a possibility inspired by Confucian ideas.Bai argues that domestic governance influenced by Confucianism can embrace the liberal aspects of democracy along with the democratic ideas of equal opportunities and governmental accountability to the people. But Confucianism would give more political decision-making power to those…
Confucianism and Same-Sex Marriage
In the majority opinion by the U.S. Supreme Court over same-sex marriage, a claim by Confucius was quoted, which led to an uproar among Confucian scholars in mainland China. In this article, I will first explain the background of the debate over same-sex marriage in the United States, and why Confucius's claim was quoted. I will then show how a contemporary Confucian philosopher Zhang Xianglong addressed the issue of same-sex marriage from a Conf…
A Moderate, A-metaphysical, and Hierarchical Proposal to Save Liberal Orders—Response to Critics
The Edge of Civilizations
China
Introduction * 1. Modernity before its time: the historical context of 'classical' Chinese political thought * 2. The middle way of Confucianism: humanity as the new social glue * 3. The middle way of Confucianism: equality-based mobile hierarchy * 4. Daoism: return to an age of innocence * 5. The Legalists: builders of modern bureaucracy and institutions * 6. Later developments: the middle way * Conclusion: The contemporary relevance of traditio…
Save liberalism through (whose?) soulcraft – a critical review of Liberalism as a Way of Life
In his book, Liberalism as a Way of Life, acknowledging the fact that today, many people in a liberal society do not have any other comprehensive doctrines than liberalism, and thus calling for putting aside later Rawls’s cautious project that is focused on an account of liberal citizen only, Alexandre Lefebvre tries to offer an account of how to be a liberal person by constructing a liberal comprehensive doctrine and a soulcraft for such a perso…
Political science (15 obras) · Chinese history and philosophy (13 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Epistemology (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · China (6 obras) · Political economy (6 obras) · Democracy (5 obras)