Phan Chu Trinh's Democratic Confucianism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10432091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin D Pham (0000-0003-1758-7699, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 597-620 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670519000494 |
| OpenAlex | W2973098521 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
A consensus on three claims has emerged in literature that explores the relationship between Confucianism and democracy: democracy is not the exclusive property of Western liberalism, Confucianism and liberalism are opposed, and democracy in East Asia would be best buttressed by Confucianism, not liberalism. Why, then, does Phan Chu Trinh (1872–1926), Vietnam's celebrated nationalist of the French colonial period, argue that liberalism and democracy are Western creations that cannot be decoupled, and, if adopted by the Vietnamese, will allow Confucianism to find its fullest expression? The answer is that Trinh ignores liberalism's individualism while celebrating other aspects of liberalism and Western civilization. Trinh's interpretation of Western ideas, although naive, is a creative one that offers political theorists a lesson: it may be useful to view foreign ideas as foreign, to interpret them generously, and to import the creative distortion to revive our own cherished, yet faltering, traditions
Civilization · Democracy · Individualism · Liberalism · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Overturned Chariot
Towards Illiberal Democracy
Liberal Rights or/and Confucian Virtues?
A Pragmatist Understanding of Confucian Democracy
A Right of Rebellion in the Mengzi?
Democracy and Confucian Values
Confucianism and liberalism
Changing Referents
Vietnamese Anticolonialism 1885–1925
Confucianism for the Modern World
Confucian Perfectionism
Confucian Democracy in East Asia
Phan Chau Trinh and His Political Writings
Liberal Rights or/and Confucian Virtues
革命, Cách Mạng, Révolution
What Is Comparative Political Theory
Histories of Thought and Comparative Political Theory
Is Liberalism the Only Way Toward Democracy
The Cultural Particularity of Liberal Democracy
Concepts of 'Individual' and 'Self' in Twentieth-Century Vietnam
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