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Replacing Liberal Confucianism With Progressive Confucianism, Stephen C. Angle
Replacing Liberal Confucianism With Progressive Confucianism, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
The core thesis of this essay is that “progressive Confucianism” is a clear and viable category, a label for many though not all contemporary Confucians, which succeeds in capturing what is useful about so-called “liberal” Confucianism without suffering from various problems to which I show “liberal Confucianism” falls prey. The essay begins with examples of progressive Confucians being labeled as “liberal” in ways that are misleading. I next turn to the use of “liberal” by influential twentieth-century New Confucians and then look at some contemporary theorists who are often labeled “liberal Confucians.” Overall, for reasons having to do both with …
Human Rights In Chinese Tradition, Stephen C. Angle
Human Rights In Chinese Tradition, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
This chapter in Sarah Biddulph and Joshua Rosenzweig, eds., Handbook on human rights in China (Edward Elgar, 2019) -- examines three different approaches: the Chinese tradition is (1) an obstacle to human rights, (2) an alternative to human rights, or (3) a source of human rights. While some scholars have insisted on one or another of these approaches, I will argue here that there is truth in all of them. Nothing about the Chinese tradition determines, once-and-for-all, what modern Chinese must think about human rights, but there is no question that it has had, and will continue to have, varying …
儒家领袖与儒家民主, Stephen C. Angle
儒家领袖与儒家民主, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
儒家民主主义者认为,如同现代儒家政治体必须从君主制转变到民主制一样,必须对儒家政 治领袖的角色进行反思,但是,这并不意味着现代儒家必须摈弃传统儒家视野下的领袖观.尽管在现代民 主儒学的新背景下,一些关键的儒家见解在某种程度上呈现出新的意涵,但这些洞见的传统内涵依旧重 要.陈祖为和陈永政在论证儒家强调领导力胜过制度这一观点上并无过错,但我们还应该重视那些儒家 所依赖的用来培养和选拔贤德领袖的制度.儒家从未认为政治的运转可单独依赖于启发型的领袖,优秀 领导力的运作依赖于一系列背景制度的支撑和推进.慈继伟认为儒家在深层次上是非民主的,但这一观 点却恰恰能够帮助我们解释,为什么儒家必须向民主演进.儒家民主仍然需要政治领袖来扮演那些能够 承继传统儒家领袖精神的角色,现代儒家需要通过拥抱人本民主,而不是民本威权主义,来解决传统儒学 中的张力.
德性、自由与“有根的全球哲学”——关于“进步儒学”与“自由儒学”的对话 [Virtue, Liberty, And ‘Rooted Global Philosophy’—A Dialogue Concerning Progressive Confucianism And Liberal Confucianism], Stephen C. Angle, Ping Guo
德性、自由与“有根的全球哲学”——关于“进步儒学”与“自由儒学”的对话 [Virtue, Liberty, And ‘Rooted Global Philosophy’—A Dialogue Concerning Progressive Confucianism And Liberal Confucianism], Stephen C. Angle, Ping Guo
Stephen C. Angle
2017年4月26日，美国著名儒家学者安靖如（Stephen C. Angle）教授应邀来到山东大学中心校区，与山东社会科学院青年儒家学者郭萍博士就“有根的全球哲学”、“进步儒学”和“自由儒学”的相关问题进行了一次对话。安靖如先生指出，他所创建的“进步儒学”是一种“有根的全球哲学”，与“综合儒学”在方法论上有着根本的区别：前者是基于单一传统认可意义上“有根的”发展，后者是“双重认可”意义上“综合性的”发展。二者虽然表面近似，而且各有好处，但作为儒家学者必须对此加以区分，以便弄清各种儒学理论据以展开的价值立场和思路方法。对此，致力于创建“自由儒学”理论的郭萍博士提出了自己的理解，并且从“有根的”和“全球的”维度上介绍了“自由儒学”的理论特质。进而，双方基于各自的理论视角，就现代语境下的儒家德性观念以及自由平等与个体权利、美国儒学研究的转向等问题做了广泛地交流，由此在保持各自不同的理论思考的同时，体现出双方坚持立足儒学传统，发展现代价值的思想共识。
生活儒学与进步儒学的对话 [Dialogue Between Life Confucianism And Progressive Confucianism] (Part 1), Stephen C. Angle, Yushun Huang
生活儒学与进步儒学的对话 [Dialogue Between Life Confucianism And Progressive Confucianism] (Part 1), Stephen C. Angle, Yushun Huang
Stephen C. Angle
2017年4月25日，应尼山书院邀请，中国儒家学者、山东大学儒学高等研究院教授黄玉顺先生与美国儒家学者、维思大学（Wesleyan University）哲学系教授安靖如先生共聚济南大明湖畔，以“中美儒学对话：生活儒学与进步儒学”为题举行对话，共同探讨世界儒学发展方向。安靖如先生是西方儒学代表人物之一，提出“进步儒学”（Progressive Confucianism）理论，以表达对儒学发展方向、理路等一系列问题的看法。他把儒学理解为一个活的、发展中的传统，强调进步儒学最重要的方法论概念是“有根的全球哲学”，即儒学的发展必须既是源自儒家传统的（有根的），又是敞开的（全球的）。黄玉顺先生所创立的“生活儒学”理论，意在发掘儒学所蕴涵的某些能够穿越时空、超越历史地域的观念。生活儒学突破“形上→形下”的观念架构，揭示“生活存在→形而上存在者→形而下存在者”的观念层级，强调回归生活本身及其仁爱情感，重建儒家的形上学和形下学，使儒学能够真正有效地切入当今世界的社会生活。对话过程中，两位儒家分别阐述了各自理论的创构背景、方法架构和核心观念，并且以儒学与自由主义的关系为中心进行深入地互动交流，在展现了各自独特的思想个性的同时取得了广泛共识。特别是在儒学发展之“有根的”立场和现代性的价值取向上，“进步儒学”与“生活儒学”可谓高度一致。
生活儒学与进步儒学的对话 [Dialogue Between Life Confucianism And Progressive Confucianism] (Part 2), Stephen C. Angle, Yushun Huang
生活儒学与进步儒学的对话 [Dialogue Between Life Confucianism And Progressive Confucianism] (Part 2), Stephen C. Angle, Yushun Huang
Stephen C. Angle
此为“生活儒学与进步儒学的对话”之下部分。
Comments On Joseph Chan, Confucian Perfectionism, Stephen C. Angle
Comments On Joseph Chan, Confucian Perfectionism, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
I approach this encounter with Joseph Chan’s important work on Confucian perfectionism from a fundamentally sympathetic standpoint. Most basically, I agree with two of his key premises. Confucianism is more than a rich historical tradition: it is a live strand of political (and other types of) theory, able to criticize and contribute to our lives today. But for modern Confucianism to be plausible and attractive, it must find a way to embrace the idea of limited government or constitutionalism in a deeper fashion than it did historically. There are many other issues that Joseph covers in his book, and on …
Comments On Joseph Chan, Confucian Perfectionism, Stephen C. Angle
Comments On Joseph Chan, Confucian Perfectionism, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
I approach this encounter with Joseph Chan’s important work on Confucian perfectionism from a fundamentally sympathetic standpoint. Most basically, I agree with two of his key premises. Confucianism is more than a rich historical tradition: it is a live strand of political (and other types of) theory, able to criticize and contribute to our lives today. But for modern Confucianism to be plausible and attractive, it must find a way to embrace the idea of limited government or constitutionalism in a deeper fashion than it did historically. There are many other issues that Joseph covers in his book, and on …
Moral Virtue, Civic Virtue, And Pluralism, Stephen C. Angle
Moral Virtue, Civic Virtue, And Pluralism, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Kim Sungmoon’s Confucian Democracy in East Asia: Theory and Practice makes many important contributions to our understanding of what is at stake in thinking of Confucianism as a viable political theory in the modern world. One of the book’s most interesting features is its grounding in the on-going practice of Confucianism in South Korea, on the one hand, and yet its emphasis on pluralism within Korean society, on the other.[1] Kim thus aims to describe and defend a polity that, while not relying on its citizens’ unanimous acceptance of Confucianism as comprehensive doctrine, nonetheless can legitimately maintain a distinctively …
Confucian Leadership Meets Confucian Democracy, Stephen C. Angle
Confucian Leadership Meets Confucian Democracy, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Many famous images of the inspirational, almost magical character of Confucian leadership seem very distant from any idea of democracy. Some modern Confucian celebrate this distance, arguing that modern Confucian polities should be ruled by elites, and perhaps that these elites should be venerated in something like the traditional way.3 Confucian democrats, in contrast, hold that the roles of Confucian political leaders must be rethought, just as the modern Confucian polity must shift from a monarchy to a constitutional democracy. This does not mean that modern Confucians must turn their backs on traditional Confucian views of leadership: the key …
Building Bridges To Distant Shores, Stephen C. Angle
Building Bridges To Distant Shores, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Late in 1987, having graduated from college and headed to Taiwan to study more Chinese, I decided to attend an international conference on Confucianism. At lunchtime on the first day I was sitting by myself, intimidated by the luminaries all around, when a smiling scholar sat down across from me, introduced himself as Roger Ames, and immediately made me feel at home. (Although he did question the wisdom of my intention to attend a graduate school other than Hawaii.) 1987 also saw the publication of Thinking Through Confucius, Roger’s seminal collaboration with David Hall; shortly after I met Roger …
Building Bridges To Distant Shores, Stephen C. Angle
Building Bridges To Distant Shores, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Late in 1987, having graduated from college and headed to Taiwan to study more Chinese, I decided to attend an international conference on Confucianism. At lunchtime on the first day I was sitting by myself, intimidated by the luminaries all around, when a smiling scholar sat down across from me, introduced himself as Roger Ames, and immediately made me feel at home. (Although he did question the wisdom of my intention to attend a graduate school other than Hawaii.) 1987 also saw the publication of Thinking Through Confucius, Roger’s seminal collaboration with David Hall; shortly after I met Roger …
Confucian Leadership Meets Confucian Democracy, Stephen C. Angle
Confucian Leadership Meets Confucian Democracy, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Many famous images of the inspirational, almost magical character of Confucian leadership seem very distant from any idea of democracy. Some modern Confucian celebrate this distance, arguing that modern Confucian polities should be ruled by elites, and perhaps that these elites should be venerated in something like the traditional way.3 Confucian democrats, in contrast, hold that the roles of Confucian political leaders must be rethought, just as the modern Confucian polity must shift from a monarchy to a constitutional democracy. This does not mean that modern Confucians must turn their backs on traditional Confucian views of leadership: the key …
Comparative Philosophy: Reviewing The State Of The Art, Stephen C. Angle
Comparative Philosophy: Reviewing The State Of The Art, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Comparative Philosophy: Reviewing the State of the Art
Table of Contents
0. Introduction — Stephen C. Angle 1
Part 1: Pairs
1. Transcending Tradition through Virtue Ethics — Daniel J. Lemieux 7
A Review of Jiyuan Yu, The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtue
2. Understanding a New Type of Religion — Gwendolyn R. Pastor 15
A Review of Ge Ling Shang, Liberation as Affirmation: The Religiosity of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche
3. Work Hard, Study Hard, Practice Hard — Jennie He 25
A Review of Aaron Stalnaker, Overcoming Our Evil: Human …
World Virtue Ethics, Stephen C. Angle
World Virtue Ethics, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
As many chapters in the present volume have shown, virtue ethics has been practiced and theorized in many different ways around the world. Different times and places have different lists of virtues, or differently-conceptualized notions of unified virtue; virtues have been justified in different ways, interrelated in different ways, and had differing degrees of centrality in broader traditions of ethical thinking and practice. The goal of this chapter is to offer present-day theorists some ways of making sense of this diversity, as it informs our philosophical work and ethical living, both today and into the future. The bulk of the …
Western, Chinese, And Universal Values, Stephen C. Angle
Western, Chinese, And Universal Values, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Efforts to resist “Western values” and to promote “Chinese values” are often based on a crude cultural relativism which is implausible on both historical and philosophical grounds. Admittedly, worries about a facile equation of “West” with “universal” are sometimes well-founded, but the answer is not to retreat to a relativism that would limit all parties’ abilities to seek self-improvement. Rather, building on examples like Chinese new cosmopolitans and modern Confucians—including the great Confucian thinker Mou Zongsan (1909-1995)—current reformers should look to undermine dichotomous, monolithic “East versus West” views of the world. Chinese (and, for that matter, non-Chinese) education, cultural life, …
Virtue Ethics, Rule Of Law, And Self-Restriction, Stephen C. Angle
Virtue Ethics, Rule Of Law, And Self-Restriction, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
It is a provocative coincidence that 1958 saw the publication of both Elizabeth Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy,” an essay widely seen as initiating the revival of Western philosophical interest in virtue ethics, and the “Manifesto to the World’s People on Behalf of Chinese Culture,” a jointly-authored argument that Confucianism was still alive and had much to offer to the world. A great deal of research and debate has flowed from each of these sources over the last half-century, but so far there has been very little dialogue between modern Western virtue ethics and modern Confucianism.1 Scholars of ancient Confucianism …
Seeing Confucian ‘Active Moral Perception’ In Light Of Contemporary Psychology, Stephen C. Angle
Seeing Confucian ‘Active Moral Perception’ In Light Of Contemporary Psychology, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
A central goal of my 2009 book Sagehood was to demonstrate the value of putting Neo-Confucian thinkers like Zhu Xi (1130-1200) and Wang Yangming (1472-1529) into dialogue with contemporary Western philosophers. I argued there that on a range of topics—from the scope and motivation for ethics, to understanding and responding to moral conflicts, to moral perception, to ethical education—Western philosophers could learn from Zhu and Wang, and the contemporary heirs of the Neo-Confucians could learn from their Western counterparts. In Sagehood I also dipped into some recent psychological literature on the lives and psychology of moral exemplars, which I used …
Mou Zongsan And His Nineteen Lectures On Chinese Philosophy, Stephen C. Angle
Mou Zongsan And His Nineteen Lectures On Chinese Philosophy, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Mou Zongsan (1909-95) was a philosophical giant whose legacy looms large over Chinese-speaking regions of the world, and who is in the process of being discovered by non- Sinophone thinkers. Faced with many challenges to earlier Chinese self-understandings, Mou and his contemporaries undertook sustained, critical engagement with philosophical thought from outside their native traditions. In the twenty-first century, philosophers in the Western world are slowly beginning to follow suit. Some are motivated by worries about the narrowness or unsustainability of present Western trends; others are prompted by worries about the rise of China; and some are simply attracted to the …
Sages And Self-Restriction: A Response To Joseph Chan, Stephen C. Angle
Sages And Self-Restriction: A Response To Joseph Chan, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Many thanks to Joseph Chan for his insightful review, and to the editors of this journal for allowing me this brief response. By the time this exchange appears in print, Joseph’s important book Confucian Perfectionism will have been published, and readers will be able to see all the more clearly the many ways in which Joseph’s and my visions of broadly democratic Confucian political philosophy overlap and, I think, reinforce one another. Still, there are places where we see things differently, and so dialogue like the present exchange—and the prior workshop on my book that Joseph generously arranged at his university …
Sages And Self-Restriction: A Response To Joseph Chan, Stephen C. Angle
Sages And Self-Restriction: A Response To Joseph Chan, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Many thanks to Joseph Chan for his insightful review, and to the editors of this journal for allowing me this brief response. By the time this exchange appears in print, Joseph’s important book Confucian Perfectionism will have been published, and readers will be able to see all the more clearly the many ways in which Joseph’s and my visions of broadly democratic Confucian political philosophy overlap and, I think, reinforce one another. Still, there are places where we see things differently, and so dialogue like the present exchange—and the prior workshop on my book that Joseph generously arranged at his university …
安靖如教授之回應, Stephen C. Angle
安靖如教授之回應, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
近年來，中國哲學研究有一個很重要的趨勢，就是學者們不斷增加在東亞、北美和歐洲之間的交流。在這樣跨文化的交流中可能有許多障礙，但是許多學者很努力地克服它們。我們得到的成果是，關於文本內容和哲學活動之不同風格這兩點，我們更具能力互相溝通、互相學習。我確定這樣的發展改善了美國對於中國哲學的研究，也希望在世界各地的同業們同樣的感受。所以當米建國教授首次邀請我到東吳大學擔任訪問學者時，尤其是何乏筆教授和馬愷之教授還計劃在中央研究院為我的書 《聖境》 （Sagehood: The Contemporary Significance of Neo-Confucian Philosophy) 舉辦一日工作坊時，我感到相當興奮與榮幸。因此，我想再度地感謝他們每一個人，以及其他參與者，使得我們的對話變得如此熱烈和俱有建設性。在接下來的評論中，我會給每位評論者做回應（大概也是諸多主題在 《聖境》中所呈現的順序）。
Mou Zongsan And His Nineteen Lectures On Chinese Philosophy, Stephen C. Angle
Mou Zongsan And His Nineteen Lectures On Chinese Philosophy, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Mou Zongsan (1909-95) was a philosophical giant whose legacy looms large over Chinese-speaking regions of the world, and who is in the process of being discovered by non- Sinophone thinkers. Faced with many challenges to earlier Chinese self-understandings, Mou and his contemporaries undertook sustained, critical engagement with philosophical thought from outside their native traditions. In the twenty-first century, philosophers in the Western world are slowly beginning to follow suit. Some are motivated by worries about the narrowness or unsustainability of present Western trends; others are prompted by worries about the rise of China; and some are simply attracted to the …
Is Conscientiousness A Virtue? Confucian Responses, Stephen C. Angle
Is Conscientiousness A Virtue? Confucian Responses, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Among contemporary philosophers sympathetic to the theoretical centrality of virtue, there is little agreement on the status of conscientiousness. Indeed, there is little agreement even on what the word “conscientiousness” means; for the time being, let us take it to mean consciously ensuring that one does one’s duty. Adams and Wallace both take conscientiousness to be a virtue, whereas Roberts calls it a “quasi-virtue” and Slote argues that it is both different from and inferior to virtue.The landscape becomes still more complicated when we add in the vexed concept of “continence,” which we can initially gloss as forcing oneself to …
The Analects And Moral Theory, Stephen C. Angle
The Analects And Moral Theory, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Over the last century, scholars both within China and without have considered how the Analects relates to modern, Western philosophy. Should we think of the Analects—or the early Confucian tradition more broadly—as “philosophy,” and if so, should we seek to analyze its contents in terms of Western philosophical categories? With regard to the ethical teachings in the text, a more specific concern has also been raised: does it make sense to think of the Analects as engaging in “moral” theory, or is its framework adequately different from modern Western moral philosophy that a different set of categories are necessary?1 …
The Analects And Moral Theory, Stephen C. Angle
The Analects And Moral Theory, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Over the last century, scholars both within China and without have considered how the Analects relates to modern, Western philosophy. Should we think of the Analects—or the early Confucian tradition more broadly—as “philosophy,” and if so, should we seek to analyze its contents in terms of Western philosophical categories? With regard to the ethical teachings in the text, a more specific concern has also been raised: does it make sense to think of the Analects as engaging in “moral” theory, or is its framework adequately different from modern Western moral philosophy that a different set of categories are necessary?1 …
Is Conscientiousness A Virtue? Confucian Responses, Stephen C. Angle
Is Conscientiousness A Virtue? Confucian Responses, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Among contemporary philosophers sympathetic to the theoretical centrality of virtue, there is little agreement on the status of conscientiousness. Indeed, there is little agreement even on what the word “conscientiousness” means; for the time being, let us take it to mean consciously ensuring that one does one’s duty. Adams and Wallace both take conscientiousness to be a virtue, whereas Roberts calls it a “quasi-virtue” and Slote argues that it is both different from and inferior to virtue.The landscape becomes still more complicated when we add in the vexed concept of “continence,” which we can initially gloss as forcing oneself to …
Reply To Critics [Of Sagehood], Stephen C. Angle
Reply To Critics [Of Sagehood], Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
One could ask for no more generous yet stimulating a set of critics than Professors Swanton, Tiwald, and Marchal.1 In this short reply, I will take up each in turn.
A Response To Thorian Harris, Stephen C. Angle
A Response To Thorian Harris, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Philosophy is best conducted face-to-face, because it is in the continual back-and- forth of learning and teaching that takes place in conversation that we make the most progress. The opportunity to reply to a charitable and yet challenging review of one’s book, I have now discovered, is a surprisingly close approximation to face-to-face philosophy. This is all the more true when I have already learned from the reviewer’s teachers, was responding (in part) to them in my book, and now Thorian Harris offers his own perspective. I hope that my replies here, and Harris’s subsequent rejoinder, can help make the …
人权与中国思想的中文版序 ［Preface To The Chinese Edition Of Human Rights And Chinese Thought］, Stephen C. Angle
人权与中国思想的中文版序 ［Preface To The Chinese Edition Of Human Rights And Chinese Thought］, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
自本书首次出版以来的这些年中,东西方的学者和普通公民仍在继续探讨人权的普遍性 与历史和文化特殊性之间的关系问题。中国在经济和政治实力方面的不断崛起无疑也增加了 中国人希望看到中国价值观崛起的渴望:一个拥有五千年文明历史的国家当然可以给当代世 界的贡献很多东西。近几年来,中国在“普适价值观”的倡导者与“中国模式”的支持者之 间掀起了一场广泛的争论。当然,人权并非是此场争论的唯一主题,争论也涵盖了经济和政 治组织、自由和福利之类的一般价值观,以及全世界是否或应否趋向一套单一的价值观等问 题。也许从此争论中可以得到的一个启示是,无论是对“普适价值观”还是对单纯“中国模 式”的单一理解而言,没有一个答案会适用于所有这些不同领域。