Democracy after Virtue

Toward Pragmatic Confucian Democracy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10690367
AutoresBernard Wong (0000-0003-0724-1635, Chinese University of Hong Kong, autor de correspondencia), Baldwin Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Año2020
Volumen70
Número279
Páginas440-442
Fecha de publicación2020-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pq/pqz055
OpenAlexW2978249005
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14

Kim Sungmoon's recent monograph is a sequel to his last two books, Confucian Democracy in East Asia and Public Reason Confucianism. The former is Kim's first attempt in presenting a Confucian democratic theory that is suited for East Asia, and the latter further explains what ‘Confucian’ Kim's theory is. In Democracy after Virtue, Kim turns to discuss the ‘democratic’ part of his theory and provides a ‘generic mode of democracy in [his] idea of Confucian democracy’ (9). He calls this pragmatic Confucian democracy, which is ‘a mode of democracy whose political institutions and social practices, which together make democracy a way of life, are justified on pragmatic grounds under the circumstances of modern politics’ (6). Save for the introduction, the book consists of two parts, each with three chapters. The first part presents the philosophical justifications of Kim's model, and the second examines the practical implications for criminal,...

China · Democracy · East Asia · Epistemology · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Virtue · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Philosophy