The crisis of liberal democracy and the Confucian challenge: A pragmatist response

• Main Author: TAN, Sor-hoon
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: John Dewey; Pragmatism; Confucianism; traditionalism; end of history; Liberty; Community; Equality; Political Science; Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3634
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In the current crisis of liberal democracy, Confucianism has been cited as offering superior alternativemodels of government. With the resources from Dewey’s Pragmatism, this paper defends democracy, whichshould not be equated to de facto liberal democracies, as desirable for Confucian societies. It...