Mengzi and democracy: Dual implications

Journal of Chinese Philosophy

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-102

  Guorong, Yang ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049274917     PISSN: 03018121     EISSN: 15406253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6253.2004.00144.x     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. The translation of Analects and Mengzi in this paper employs Wing-tsit Chan's A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963); some are revised according to the original text and the author's preference
2. See Ren Jiyu, Zhongguo zhexue fazhanshi (The Development of Chinese Philosophy), vol. 2 (Beijing: Renmin chubanshe, 1985), pp. 476-477
3. See Feng Qi, Zhongguo Gudai Zhexue de Luoji Fazhan (The Logical Development of Ancient Chinese Philosophy), vol. 1 (Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 1997), pp. 87-90
4. See Zhu Xi, Mengzi jizhu (The Collected Commentaries on the Book of Mencius) in Si Shu zhangju jizhu (The Collected Commentaries on Chapters and Sentences in the Four Books) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1983), p. 300
5. See this argument further in Chung-ying Cheng, "On Democracy as Realization of Social Justice: Inquiring into Paradigms of Chinese Democracy," in Distribution of Power and Rewards: Studies in Democracy and Social Justice, edited by Chung-ying Cheng and James Hsiung (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1991), pp. 317-344
6. See Zhu Xi, Mengzi jizhu, p. 307
7. See Huang Zongxi, " Yuanchen" ("The Clarification of Subjects"), in Ming Yi Dai Fang Lu (The Statement of the People Who are Waiting for an Invitation to Visit [the Emperor])
8. Gu Yanwu, "Zhengshi" ("The Correct Beginning"), in Ri Zhi Lu (The Records of Knowing Daily), vol. 7
9. and Wang Fuzhi, Huang Shu (Yellow Book). All of these people emphasize that the country belongs to the people in the country and not to the emperor or emperor's family
10. For further discussion, see Feng Qi, Gudai Zhongguo zhexue de luoji fazhan, vol. 3, pp. 216-220, 304-307, and 328-331
11. See Zhu Xi, Mengzi Ji Zhu, p. 367
12. See Chung-ying Cheng, "Transforming Confucian Virtues into Human Rights: A Study of Human Agency and Potency in Confucian Ethics," in Confucianism and Human Rights, edited by William Theodore de Bary and Tu Weiming (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), pp. 142-153