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Stephen C. Angle

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Sages And Self-Restriction: A Response To Joseph Chan, Stephen C. Angle Dec 2013

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 Dec 2013

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 …