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Article: Classic Confucian Thought and Political Meritocracy: A Text-based Critique
Title | Classic Confucian Thought and Political Meritocracy: A Text-based Critique |
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Keywords | classic Confucianism comparative political theory Confucian democracy Confucian meritocracy Confucian political theory |
Issue Date | 2021 |
Citation | Dao, 2021, v. 20, n. 3, p. 433-458 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Recent debates on Confucian meritocracy largely center around outright normative critiques rather than its textual basis. The unflattering upshot is the lack of attention to a mode of critique that scrutinizes Confucian meritocracy by questioning the way meritocrats invoke Confucian concepts and values. Focusing on three meritocrats—Bai Tongdong 白彤東, Daniel A. Bell, and Kang Xiaoguang 康曉光, this article ventures a text-based normative approach by examining continuities and ruptures between core meritocratic arguments they make, and the messages conveyed by Confucian masters. The core argument that I advance is that the meritocratic thesis about the political division of labor does not mesh with the classic Confucian understandings of voluntariness and political authority, which generates uneasy normative consequences for Confucian meritocracy. Ultimately, classic Confucianism does not provide a conceptually secure platform for the meritocratic part of Confucian meritocracy as its ardent advocates claim. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/316592 |
ISSN | 2022 Impact Factor: 0.4 2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.209 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Jin, Yutang | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-14T11:40:49Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-14T11:40:49Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Dao, 2021, v. 20, n. 3, p. 433-458 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1540-3009 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/316592 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Recent debates on Confucian meritocracy largely center around outright normative critiques rather than its textual basis. The unflattering upshot is the lack of attention to a mode of critique that scrutinizes Confucian meritocracy by questioning the way meritocrats invoke Confucian concepts and values. Focusing on three meritocrats—Bai Tongdong 白彤東, Daniel A. Bell, and Kang Xiaoguang 康曉光, this article ventures a text-based normative approach by examining continuities and ruptures between core meritocratic arguments they make, and the messages conveyed by Confucian masters. The core argument that I advance is that the meritocratic thesis about the political division of labor does not mesh with the classic Confucian understandings of voluntariness and political authority, which generates uneasy normative consequences for Confucian meritocracy. Ultimately, classic Confucianism does not provide a conceptually secure platform for the meritocratic part of Confucian meritocracy as its ardent advocates claim. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Dao | - |
dc.subject | classic Confucianism | - |
dc.subject | comparative political theory | - |
dc.subject | Confucian democracy | - |
dc.subject | Confucian meritocracy | - |
dc.subject | Confucian political theory | - |
dc.title | Classic Confucian Thought and Political Meritocracy: A Text-based Critique | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11712-021-09789-6 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85110588497 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 20 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 3 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 433 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 458 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1569-7274 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000673681100001 | - |