Yutang Jin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3959800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yutang Jin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yutang |
| FAMILY NAME | Jin |
| SIGNATURE | JIN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8579-4951 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Political leadership and the agent-centered approach: A realist critique of Elena Ziliotti’s Meritocratic Democracy
This essay focuses on Elena Ziliotti’s ‘agent-centered approach’ in her discussion of political leadership. In her view, ‘political leaders are a critical political agency.’ I advance three criticisms: one conceptual and two normative. First, it’s conceptually unclear whether her approach is ‘agent-centered.’ Second, a political leader may need to contravene instrumental virtues to uphold the virtue of public spiritedness. Third, it’s unrealistic…
Confucianism and Democratic Constitutionalism in East Asia: Evaluating Confucian Democratic Perfectionism
Recently, Sungmoon Kim developed a theory of what he calls “Confucian democratic perfectionism” aimed at combining Confucianism, public reason, and democracy for contemporary East Asian societies. The primary question guiding this article is whether Kim's promotion of Confucian values is justified by a normative commitment to democratic constitution‐making. I see two specific difficulties with Kim's democratic constitution‐making, with the second…
Confucian Virtue Politics in Modern Times: A Reappraisal of Xu Fuguan’s Confucian Democracy
This article discusses prominent New Confucian Xu Fuguan’s account of Confucian democracy. By examining his thought, the article makes crucial contributions to both Confucian political theory and existing scholarship on Xu’s political thought. The main arguments revolve around Xu’s key distinction between Confucian ethics and politics. More specifically, Xu’s reading reconciles Confucian virtue politics with democratic rule by reconceiving Confuc…
Public and private interests in Han Fei: A statist approach
Han Fei was a central figure in Chinese Legalism, which was a leading school of thought in the Warring States period of China, and which left a huge imprint on political culture in imperial China. This article examines the complex duality of public and private interests in Han Fei’s political thought, a crucial aspect of his thinking. I argue that Han Fei adopted a sophisticated statist approach to understanding public and private interests. For …
Self-Restriction, Political Myth, and the Politics of the Ordinary: Mou Zongsan’s Confucian Democracy
This essay examines prominent New Confucian Mou Zongsan’s account of Confucian democracy by focusing on his key notion of “self-restriction.” According to Mou, true sage-kings would willingly respect ordinary people’s individual endeavors in the political realm and endorse democracy as a form of government. This move of self-restriction then aligns Confucianism with democracy in a way that fundamentally restructures traditional Confucian rulershi…
A Philosophical Defense of Culture: Perspectives from Confucianism and Cassirer
In this groundbreaking work, Shuchen Xiang offers a philosophical defense of culture by dexterously weaving together a humanist, Confucian understanding of culture (wen 文) and the phenomenology of culture developed by Ernst Cassirer, a German philosopher who exerted crucial influence on both analytical and continental philosophy. Xiang identifies substantial common ground between Confucianism and Cassirer's approaches, at the core of which is the…
Confucianism's Prospects: A Reassessment
Confucian Leadership Democracy: A Roadmap
What kind of polity is justified by classic Confucian values? Adopting an interpretive approach, this paper explores the idea of leadership democracy being expressive of classic Confucian values by first introducing the models of leadership democracy associated with Weber and Schumpeter and second connecting Confucian elitist values to them. I argue that leadership democracy best realizes the Confucian emphasis on the people as the source of legi…
What Confucianism and for Whom? The Value and Dilemma of Invoking Confucianism in Confucian Political Theories
In his essay “why Confucius today,” William de Bary ( 2003 , 362) questions a quest for Confucius the original at the expense of the “problems of continuity and change” in exploring the relevance of Confucianism today. De Bary’s insight brings into sharp focus how people here and now can mobilize the Confucian past in contemporary societies given that challenges of modernity have decisively shifted and displaced its social and political foundatio…
Self-Restriction, Political Myth, and the Politics of the Ordinary: Mou Zongsan’s Confucian Democracy
This essay examines prominent New Confucian Mou Zongsan’s account of Confucian democracy by focusing on his key notion of “self-restriction.” According to Mou, true sage-kings would willingly respect ordinary people’s individual endeavors in the political realm and endorse democracy as a form of government. This move of self-restriction then aligns Confucianism with democracy in a way that fundamentally restructures traditional Confucian rulershi…
Confucian Leadership Democracy: A Roadmap
What kind of polity is justified by classic Confucian values? Adopting an interpretive approach, this paper explores the idea of leadership democracy being expressive of classic Confucian values by first introducing the models of leadership democracy associated with Weber and Schumpeter and second connecting Confucian elitist values to them. I argue that leadership democracy best realizes the Confucian emphasis on the people as the source of legi…
What Confucianism and for Whom? The Value and Dilemma of Invoking Confucianism in Confucian Political Theories
In his essay “why Confucius today,” William de Bary ( 2003 , 362) questions a quest for Confucius the original at the expense of the “problems of continuity and change” in exploring the relevance of Confucianism today. De Bary’s insight brings into sharp focus how people here and now can mobilize the Confucian past in contemporary societies given that challenges of modernity have decisively shifted and displaced its social and political foundatio…
Confucianism's Prospects: A Reassessment
Self-Restriction, Political Myth, and the Politics of the Ordinary: Mou Zongsan’s Confucian Democracy
This essay examines prominent New Confucian Mou Zongsan’s account of Confucian democracy by focusing on his key notion of “self-restriction.” According to Mou, true sage-kings would willingly respect ordinary people’s individual endeavors in the political realm and endorse democracy as a form of government. This move of self-restriction then aligns Confucianism with democracy in a way that fundamentally restructures traditional Confucian rulershi…
A Philosophical Defense of Culture: Perspectives from Confucianism and Cassirer
In this groundbreaking work, Shuchen Xiang offers a philosophical defense of culture by dexterously weaving together a humanist, Confucian understanding of culture (wen 文) and the phenomenology of culture developed by Ernst Cassirer, a German philosopher who exerted crucial influence on both analytical and continental philosophy. Xiang identifies substantial common ground between Confucianism and Cassirer's approaches, at the core of which is the…
Public and private interests in Han Fei: A statist approach
Han Fei was a central figure in Chinese Legalism, which was a leading school of thought in the Warring States period of China, and which left a huge imprint on political culture in imperial China. This article examines the complex duality of public and private interests in Han Fei’s political thought, a crucial aspect of his thinking. I argue that Han Fei adopted a sophisticated statist approach to understanding public and private interests. For …
Political leadership and the agent-centered approach: A realist critique of Elena Ziliotti’s Meritocratic Democracy
This essay focuses on Elena Ziliotti’s ‘agent-centered approach’ in her discussion of political leadership. In her view, ‘political leaders are a critical political agency.’ I advance three criticisms: one conceptual and two normative. First, it’s conceptually unclear whether her approach is ‘agent-centered.’ Second, a political leader may need to contravene instrumental virtues to uphold the virtue of public spiritedness. Third, it’s unrealistic…
Confucianism and Democratic Constitutionalism in East Asia: Evaluating Confucian Democratic Perfectionism
Recently, Sungmoon Kim developed a theory of what he calls “Confucian democratic perfectionism” aimed at combining Confucianism, public reason, and democracy for contemporary East Asian societies. The primary question guiding this article is whether Kim's promotion of Confucian values is justified by a normative commitment to democratic constitution‐making. I see two specific difficulties with Kim's democratic constitution‐making, with the second…
Confucian Virtue Politics in Modern Times: A Reappraisal of Xu Fuguan’s Confucian Democracy
This article discusses prominent New Confucian Xu Fuguan’s account of Confucian democracy. By examining his thought, the article makes crucial contributions to both Confucian political theory and existing scholarship on Xu’s political thought. The main arguments revolve around Xu’s key distinction between Confucian ethics and politics. More specifically, Xu’s reading reconciles Confucian virtue politics with democratic rule by reconceiving Confuc…
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