Progressive Confucianism and its Critics

Stephen C. Angle is Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. Angle specializes in Confucianism and comparative philosophy, and is the author of five books, including Growing Moral: A Confucian Guide to Life (Oxford UP, 2022). Yutang Jin is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Hong Kong. He has written on a wide range of issues in normative political theory and the history of Chinese political thought, and his articles have appeared in Political Theory, Philosophy & Social Criticism, The Journal of Value Inquiry, Philosophy East and West, among others.

Introduction; Dialogue I: Contemporary Confucianism; Dialogue II: Mou Zongsan and Modern Confucianism; Dialogue III: Kang Youwei’s Confucian Legacy; Dialogue IV: Confucian Religion; Dialogue V: Confucian Classicism; Dialogue VI: Leftwing Confucianism; Dialogue VII: Liberal Confucianism; Dialogue VIII: Confucian Constitutionalism; Epilogue I: Which Confucianism? Which Liberalism? Progressive Confucianism as a Middle Way; Epilogue II: Learning From One Another; Appendix: Named Figures.