Confucianism and Democratic Constitutionalism in East Asia: Evaluating Confucian Democratic Perfectionism.
Recently, Sungmoon Kim developed a theory of what he calls "Confucian democratic perfectionism" aimed at combining Confucianism, public reason, and democracy for contemporary East Asian societies. The primary question guiding this article is whether Kim's promotion of Confucian values is justified b...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Forum Vol. 56; no. 1/2; pp. 3 - 13 |
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