Confucian Humanitarian Intervention? Toward Democratic Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6401377 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kim (0000-0003-2291-5896, corresponding author), Sungmoon Kim |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 187-213 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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/s0034670516001212 |
| OpenAlex | W2606691955 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 32 |
It is widely claimed that Mencius's account of punitive expedition can be understood as a Confucian justification of humanitarian intervention and thus has the potential to play the role of constraining China's imperial ventures abroad. This paper challenges this optimism, by drawing attention to internal and external obstacles—the problem of virtue's self-indulgence and the problem of justification to non-Confucians—that prevent Mencius's virtue-based political theory of punitive expedition from developing into a modern theory of humanitarian intervention. It argues that for the Mencian theory to be relevant in the modern world marked most notably by moral pluralism, it must be transformed into a democratic theory, at the center of which is the stipulation that humanitarian intervention be morally justified internally, that is, to the people of the intervening state, as well as externally, first to the people to be intervened state, and second to international society
Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humanitarian intervention · Intervention (counseling · Law and economics · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Punitive damages · Sociology · State (computer science · Stipulation · Virtue · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
Confucianism and human rights
The China Model
Democratic Reason
Confucian Views on War as Seen in the Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals
Between Good and Evil
A Genealogical Study of De
Xunzi's Moral Analysis of War and Some of Its Contemporary Implications
A Right of Rebellion in the Mengzi?
Han Feizi's Criticism of Confucianism and its Implications for Virtue Ethics
Beyond Liberal Democracy
Mysticism and Kingship in China
Early China
Classical Confucian Political Thought
War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe
The Cambridge History of Ancient China
War and Confucianism
The Classical Confucian Position on the Legitimate Use of Military Force
A Mencian Version of Limited Democracy
Retaining the Mandate of Heaven
Confucian moral self cultivation
Political theory and international relations
Confucian Constitutionalism
The World of Thought in Ancient China
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |