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Confucianism and the State
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Abstract
This chapter introduces the Confucian perspective on the state with special attention to its underlying paradigm of virtue politics. It examines the pre-Qin establishment of the ideal of the “family-state” by classical Confucians such as Confucius and Mencius, which stipulates that the state exists to serve the well-being of the people and the ruler ought to treat the people like his own children; its radical transformation with the rise of Legalistic Confucianism after the Han dynasty; and the Neo-Confucian challenge to the imperial state, which stressed the perfect congruence between loyalty and filial piety in the service of the emperor’s absolutist power. It concludes by discussing the two most dominant visions of the Confucian state in contemporary Confucian political theory—Confucian democracy and Confucian political meritocracy.
Title: Confucianism and the State
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Abstract
This chapter introduces the Confucian perspective on the state with special attention to its underlying paradigm of virtue politics.
It examines the pre-Qin establishment of the ideal of the “family-state” by classical Confucians such as Confucius and Mencius, which stipulates that the state exists to serve the well-being of the people and the ruler ought to treat the people like his own children; its radical transformation with the rise of Legalistic Confucianism after the Han dynasty; and the Neo-Confucian challenge to the imperial state, which stressed the perfect congruence between loyalty and filial piety in the service of the emperor’s absolutist power.
It concludes by discussing the two most dominant visions of the Confucian state in contemporary Confucian political theory—Confucian democracy and Confucian political meritocracy.
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