Confucian Political Philosophy

Robert A. Carleo III (M.Phil. Chinese Philosophy, Fudan University; Ph.D. Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) works principally on comparative and Chinese moral and political theory. His writing can be found in Philosophy East and West, Asian Studies, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, and Journal of World Philosophies, as well as on Bloomsbury Academic and Open Court Press. His translations of Chinese philosophy have been published by Harvard University Press, Brill, Taylor and Francis, and Springer, one of which was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title of 2019 by the American Library Association’s Choice magazine. Yong Huang, Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, is founding editor of Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy and of Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy, the first-ever companion series exclusively focused on Chinese philosophy. He has founded several other book series, as well, including the ACPA Series in Chinese and Comparative Philosophy, and has served as co-chair of the Confucian Tradition Group of American Academy of Religion, co-chair of the University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies at Columbia University, and President the of Association of Chinese Philosophers in America. In addition, he sits on almost 20 editorial boards of scholarly journals and book series in both English and Chinese. With interests in both philosophy and religion in both Western and Chinese traditions, his research focuses on ethical and political issues from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.

Introduction: Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy.- Part I. Harmony.- Chapter 1 Harmony as a Manifestation of the Central Confucian Concept of Benevolence-A Critique of Chenyang Li's The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony.- Chapter 2 Harmony and Ren: A Response to Leung Yat Hung's Critique of The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony.- Part II. Family Determination.- Chapter 3 On Family Determination in Reconstructionist Confucianism.- Chapter 4 Which Confucianism? And What Liberty?.- Part III. Public Reason.- Chapter 5 On Confucian Public Reason.- Chapter 6 Confucian Public Reason Beyond Rawls.- Part IV. Justice.- Chapter 7 Distributive Justice in Pre-Qin Confucianism: Equality, Priority, and Sufficiency.- Chapter 8 Thinking About Justice and Interpreting the Analects.- Part V. Order and Virtue.- Chapter 9 Virtue-Based Politics: A Dialogue with Loubna El Amine's New Interpretation of Classical Confucian Political Thought.- Chapter 10 The Loftiness of Political Order-A Response to CHAN Leong.