Democracy and Confucian values

Philosophy East and West

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-63

  O'Dwyer, Shaun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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EID: 35648941201     PISSN: 00318221     EISSN: 15291898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pew.2003.0007     Document Type: Review

References (27)

1. Daniel Bell in Daniel A. Bell, D. Brown, K. Jayusuriya, and D. Jones, Towards Illiberal Democracy in Pacific Asia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 36
2. President Bill Clinton, "Remarks by the President to the Students of Beijing University" (The White House: Office of the Press Secretary, 29 June 1998)
3. Friedrich A. von Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (London: Routledge, 1960)
4. K. R. Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963), vol. 1, p. 121; vol. 2, pp. 160-161
5. Bell, in Bell et. al., Towards Illiberal Democracy, p. 20
6. The Lun Yu in English (Hong Kong: The Confucius Hall of Hong Kong, 1986), VI. 20
7. For a sustained analysis of this kind of political organization, see Bell et. al., Towards Illiberal Democracy, pp. 1-16
8. F. Zakaria, "Culture Is Destiny - A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew." Foreign Affairs 73: 2 (March/April 1994): 114
9. Ishihara Shintaro, in Mahathir Mohamad and Shintaro Ishihara, The Voice of Asia: Two Leaders Discuss the Coming Century, trans. Frank Baldwin (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1995), p. 110
10. See Alasdair Maclntyre, After Virtue (London: Duckworth, 1989)
11. Interview with Lee Kuan Yew, New Perspectives Quarterly 13 (1) (Winter 1996): 4
12. Zakaria, "Culture Is Destiny," p. 111
13. Goh Chok Tong, "Strong Values the Backbone of Success," The Australian, September 1994
14. John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1954), p. 184
15. John Dewey, Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (New York: Free Press, 1916), pp. 296-297
16. Dewey, The Public and its Problems, p. 218
17. David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames, Thinking Through Confucius (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987), p. 192
18. On this problem, see Tu Wei-ming, Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation (New York: State University of New York Press, 1985), p. 13
19. For a critical discussion of attempts to embody Confucian ideals in postwar autocratic regimes in South Korea and Taiwan, see D. M. Jones in Bell et. al., Towards Illiberal Democracy, pp. 69, 73
20. Daniel Bell notes that both of these problems are characteristic of contemporary Singaporean society. See his "A Communitarian Critique of Authoritarianism: The Case of Singapore," Political Theory 25 (February 1997): 6-32
21. Daniel A. Bell, "Democracy with Chinese Characteristics: A Political Proposal for the Post-Communist Era," Philosophy East and West 49 (4) (October 1999): 451-493
22. David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames, The Democracy of the Dead: Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China (Chicago: Open Court, 1999)
23. Hu Shih, "Ibsenism," in Elizabeth Eide, China's Ibsen: From Ibsen to Ibsenism (London: Curzon Press, 1987), pp. 155-168. For Eide's comments on the Confucian influences in this essay, see pp. 24-29
24. Seung-Hwan Lee, "Liberal Rights or/and Confucian Virtues?" Philosophy East and West 46 (3) (July 1996): 370
25. D. C. Lau, trans., Mencius (London: Penguin, 1970), III.B.2
26. Joseph Grange, "The Disappearance of the Public Good: Confucius, Dewey, Rorty," Philosophy East and West 46 (3) (July 1996): 352
27. For some interesting contrasts between East Asian and Western (specifically, American) societies on this issue, see John Gray, Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age (London: Routledge, 1995), pp. 86-119