TY - BOOK AU - Kim,Sungmoon TI - Democracy after virtue: toward pragmatic Confucian democracy T2 - Studies in comparative political theory SN - 9780190671266 (ebook) : AV - JC423 .K4727 2018 U1 - 321.8 23 PY - 2018/// CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Democracy KW - Philosophy KW - Religious aspects KW - Confucianism KW - East Asia KW - Political aspects KW - Politics and government N1 - Previously issued in print: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - In the past two decades contemporary Confucian political theory has been propelled by the dialectical conversation between Confucianism and democracy and, more recently, between Confucian democracy and Confucian meritocracy. However, the absence of a shared point of reference in developing Confucian democratic theory has made it extremely difficult to understand whether the disagreement between Confucian democrats and Confucian meritocrats is merely a political one or is also of philosophical significance. 'Democracy after Virtue' explores a normative Confucian democratic theory that justifies democracy on pragmatic grounds, both as a political system and as a way of life in East Asia, with special attention to Confucianism, a dominant cultural tradition in the region, as well as to the value pluralism and moral conflict that increasingly characterize the circumstances of East Asian politics UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190671235.001.0001 ER -