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81Political Authority and Perfectionism: A Response to QuongPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 2 (1). 2012.download
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7Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia (edited book)Lexington Books. 2008.Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia is a unique collection of essays that examines the exchange of political ideas between Western Europe and Asia from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century. The contributors to the volume call for globalizing the scope of research and teaching in the history of political thought
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10Five. Territorial Boundaries and ConfucianismIn David Lee Miller & Sohail H. Hashmi (eds.), Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives, Princeton University Press. pp. 89-111. 2002.
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38How Should Liberal Democratic Governments Treat Conscientious Disobedience as a Response to State Injustice?: A ProposalRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 91 141-167. 2022.This paper suggests that liberal democratic governments adopt a reconciliatory approach to conscientious disobedience. Central to this approach is the view – independent of whether conscientious disobedience is always morally justified – that conscientious disobedience is normatively distinct from other criminal acts with similar effects, and such distinction is worthy of acknowledgment by public apparatus and actors. The prerogative applies to both civil and uncivil instances of disobedience, a…Read more
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20Axiological Rules and Chinese Political PhilosophyJournal of Chinese Philosophy 34 (2): 161-178. 2007.
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38Public Reason Confucianism Without Foundation?Journal of Social Philosophy 50 (2): 134-144. 2019.
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30Is Democracy Coming to Knock on China’s Door? A Reply to Jiwei Ci’s Democracy in ChinaDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 21 (3): 451-466. 2022.Jiwei Ci’s Democracy in China: The Coming Crisis presents an extraordinarily rich set of ideas regarding the important subject of the prospect of democracy in China. The book argues that it is in the interest of the Chinese Communist Party to immediately begin to prepare China for democracy, as that is the only way to save the party and China from imminent crises of legitimacy, governance, and stability. Drawing upon Tocqueville’s discussion of equality of conditions in America, Ci argues that a…Read more
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32Freedom, the Good, and China's Moral CrisisPhilosophy East and West 68 (2): 583-589. 2018.Although it is widely believed that post-Mao China has fallen into a moral crisis, there are few scholarly analyses of its nature, causes, and consequences. Jiwei Ci's Moral China in the Age of Reform–1 fills this gap by giving an unusually penetrating and insightful account of this crisis. There is much in Ci's account that one can find thought-provoking and enlightening. Any good analysis of a crisis not only gives a good diagnosis but also sheds light on a possible solution. While the diagnos…Read more
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203Democracy and meritocracy: Toward a confucian perspectiveJournal of Chinese Philosophy 34 (2). 2007.
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16Confucian Attitudes toward Ethical PluralismIn Richard Madsen & Tracy B. Strong (eds.), The Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World, Princeton University Press. pp. 129-153. 2009.
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11Is popular sovereignty a useful myth?In Melissa S. Williams (ed.), Deparochializing Political Theory, Cambridge University Press. pp. 149-173. 2020.Popular sovereignty is one of the most widespread but poorly understood notions in modern politics. Exalted as the highest principle of democratic legitimacy, the idea of popular sovereignty has been given various but broadly similar formulations. . . .
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26Confucian Perfectionism: A Response to Kim, Angle, Wong, Li, Chiu, and AmesPhilosophy East and West 67 (1): 82-95. 2017.I would like to begin by thanking all the contributors to this symposium, especially Yvonne Chiu, who organized a book conference at the University of Hong Kong and edited this symposium. I am very grateful to the contributors for their thoughtful and challenging comments, from which I have learned a great deal. Within the limited space of this article, I regret that I am not able to address fully or adequately all the issues raised by the contributors. I thank Sungmoon Kim for raising challengi…Read more
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56Does Aristotle's political theory rest on a 'blunder'?History of Political Thought 13 (2): 189-202. 1992.We may sum up the five roles which human beings might play in the existence of the polis in the following way: (1) Human nature plays the role of the inner principle of change which explains the type of human relation a polis takes (the polis as a type); (2) General patterns of human behaviours, together with patterns of societal conditions, play the role of material conditions which explain the variety of forms of polis; (3) Statesmen or politicians play the role of political craftsmen which ex…Read more
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526Moral autonomy, civil liberties, and confucianismPhilosophy East and West 52 (3): 281-310. 2002.Three claims are defended. (1) There is a conception of moral autonomy in Confucian ethics that to a degree can support toleration and freedom. However, (2) Confucian moral autonomy is different from personal autonomy, and the latter gives a stronger justification for civil and personal liberties than does the former. (3) The contemporary appeal of Confucianism would be strengthened by including personal autonomy, and this need not be seen as forsaking Confucian ethics but rather as an internal …Read more
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