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Confucianism, democratization, and human rights in Taiwan - [e-book]
Confucianism, democratization, and human rights in Taiwan - [e-book]
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- 전자책
- ISBN
- 9780739173008
- 저자명
- Fetzer, Joel S.
- 서명/저자
- Confucianism, democratization, and human rights in Taiwan - [e-book] Joel S. Fetzer, J. Christopher Soper
- 판사항
- 1st ed.
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2013.
- 형태사항
- 117 p.
- 서지주기
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 내용주기
- Confucianism, democratization, and human rights in Taiwan -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia -- Chapter 2: Confucian Values and Elite Support for Liberal Democracy in Taiwan -- Chapter 3: The Effect of Confucian Values on Public Support for Democratization and Human Rights in Taiwan -- Chapter 4: The Treatment of Confucianism in Taiwanese Textbooks Before and After Democratization -- Chapter 5: The Role of Confucianism in Taiwanese Legislative Debates over Democratization and Human Rights -- Chapter 6: Toward a Liberal-Democratic Confucianism: Evidence from Taiwan -- Glossary of Non-English Terms -- Statistical Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.
- 초록/해제
- 요약 : Responding to the “Asian values” debate over the compatibility of Confucianism and liberal democracy, Confucianism, Democratization, and Human Rights in Taiwan, by Joel S. Fetzer and J. Christopher Soper, offers a rigorous, systematic investigation of the contributions of Confucian thought to democratization and the protection of women, indigenous peoples, and press freedom in Taiwan. Relying upon a unique combination of empirical analysis of public opinion surveys, legislative debates, public school textbooks, and interviews with leading Taiwanese political actors, this essential study documents the changing role of Confucianism in Taiwan’s recent political history. While the ideology largely bolstered authoritarian rule in the past and played little role in Taiwan’s democratization, the belief system is now in the process of transforming itself in a pro-democratic direction. In contrast to those who argue that Confucianism is inherently authoritarian, the authors contend that Confucianism is capable of multiple interpretations, including ones that legitimate democratic forms of government. At both the mass and the elite levels, Confucianism remains a powerful ideology in Taiwan despite or even because of the island’s democratization. Borrowing from Max Weber’s sociology of religion, the writers provide a distinctive theoretical argument for how an ideology like Confucianism can simultaneously accommodate itself to modernity and remain faithful to its core teachings as it decouples itself from the state. In doing so, Fetzer and Soper argue, Confucianism is behaving much like Catholicism, which moved from a position of ambivalence or even opposition to democracy to one of full support. The results of this study have profound implications for other Asian countries such as China and Singapore, which are also Confucian but have not yet made a full transition to democracy.
- 기타 저자
- Soper, J. Christopher
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