Franz Mang
Biographic Data
| ID | 6249786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franz Mang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franz |
| FAMILY NAME | Mang |
| SIGNATURE | MANG F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1496-9763 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Educating citizens about intellectual virtue and vice
State perfectionism and the importance of Confucianism for East Asia's future development
Is Popular Sovereignty a Useful Myth?
Joseph Chan and Franz Mang deploy analytic methods to elucidate Confucian political philosophy and ethics for the twenty-first century, arguing that Confucian ideals offer a pathway toward overcoming modern thought's neglect of the cultivation of ethical character as constitutive of the life well lived – an idea common to ancient thought in both Western and East Asian contexts. In this chapter, they accept a key challenge of deparochializing poli…
Political meritocracy and its betrayal
Some Confucian scholars have recently claimed that Confucian political meritocracy is superior to Western democracy. I have great reservations about such a view. In this article, I argue that so long as political meritocracy – be it Confucian or non-Confucian – does not commit itself to the ideal of democracy, it has the dangerous tendency to become politically oppressive in the hands of authoritarian rulers. To illustrate the problem, I first re…
Why Public Reason Could Not Be Too Modest
Confucianism, Perfectionism, and Liberal Society
Public Reason Can Be Reasonably Rejected
Public reason as a political ideal aims to reconcile reasonable disagreement; however, is public reason itself the object of reasonable disagreement? Jonathan Quong, David Estlund, Andrew Lister, and some other philosophers maintain that public reason is beyond reasonable disagreement. I argue this view is untenable. In addition, I consider briefly whether or not two main versions of the public reason principle, namely, the consensus version and …
Liberal Neutrality and Moderate Perfectionism
Liberal Neutrality and Moderate Perfectionism
Political meritocracy and its betrayal
Some Confucian scholars have recently claimed that Confucian political meritocracy is superior to Western democracy. I have great reservations about such a view. In this article, I argue that so long as political meritocracy – be it Confucian or non-Confucian – does not commit itself to the ideal of democracy, it has the dangerous tendency to become politically oppressive in the hands of authoritarian rulers. To illustrate the problem, I first re…
Liberal Neutrality and Moderate Perfectionism
Public Reason Can Be Reasonably Rejected
Public reason as a political ideal aims to reconcile reasonable disagreement; however, is public reason itself the object of reasonable disagreement? Jonathan Quong, David Estlund, Andrew Lister, and some other philosophers maintain that public reason is beyond reasonable disagreement. I argue this view is untenable. In addition, I consider briefly whether or not two main versions of the public reason principle, namely, the consensus version and …
Confucianism, Perfectionism, and Liberal Society
Why Public Reason Could Not Be Too Modest
Is Popular Sovereignty a Useful Myth?
Joseph Chan and Franz Mang deploy analytic methods to elucidate Confucian political philosophy and ethics for the twenty-first century, arguing that Confucian ideals offer a pathway toward overcoming modern thought's neglect of the cultivation of ethical character as constitutive of the life well lived – an idea common to ancient thought in both Western and East Asian contexts. In this chapter, they accept a key challenge of deparochializing poli…
Political meritocracy and its betrayal
Some Confucian scholars have recently claimed that Confucian political meritocracy is superior to Western democracy. I have great reservations about such a view. In this article, I argue that so long as political meritocracy – be it Confucian or non-Confucian – does not commit itself to the ideal of democracy, it has the dangerous tendency to become politically oppressive in the hands of authoritarian rulers. To illustrate the problem, I first re…
State perfectionism and the importance of Confucianism for East Asia's future development
Educating citizens about intellectual virtue and vice
Political Philosophy and Ethics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)