Confucian Liberalism

<p><b>Offers a renovated form of Confucian liberalism that forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism.</b></p><p>Does Confucianism conflict with liberalism? <i>Confucian Liberalism</i> sheds new light on this long-standing debate entwined with the discourse of Chinese modernity. Focusing on the legacy of Mou Zongsan the book significantly recasts the moral character and political ideal of Confucianism accompanied by a Hegelian retreatment of the multiple facets of Western modernity and its core values such as individuality self-realization democracy civilized society citizenship public good freedom and human rights. The book offers a culturally sensitive way of reevaluating liberal language and forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism. The result-Confucian liberalism-is akin to civil liberalism in that it rests the form of liberal democracy on the content of Confucian democratic civility. It is also comparable to perfectionist liberalism endorsing a nondominant concept of the common good surrounded by a set of Confucian governing and civic virtues.</p>