Global Justice in East Asia

Hugo El Kholi is a Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University, China. His current research interests are global justice, Enlightenment philosophy and contemporary Chinese political thought. Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Professor of the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University, China. His main research interests lie at the crossroads of political philosophy from Socrates to Machiavelli, contemporary political theory and comparative political philosophy.

Introduction Part 1: Critical reflections on Parochialism and Western-Centrism 1. Liberal Internationalism, Intervention and Moral Imperialism 2. On the Compatibility of Global Democratic Justice and Confucianism 3. Are Political Conceptions of Global Justice Parochial? Part 2: Contextual Appraisal 4. Anticipating Global Justice: Confucianism and Mohism in Classical China 5. Chinese Political Culture and the International Order 6. State Coercion, "Tianxia", and the Idea of Egalitarian Global Justice Part 3: East Asian Insights into Global Justice 7. All-under-Heaven and Liberty 8. A Confucian "Law of Peoples": Mencius’s Thought on Global Justice 9. Global Justice without a Center: Reappraisal of Tianxia with Non-domination 10. A Topography of Japanese Socialism: Kōtoku Shūsui and Global Justice