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Optimal Harmony, Mutual Enrichment and Strangification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Vincent Shen
Vincent Shen*
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University of Toronto
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Abstract

This paper studies the relation between modern democracy and Chinese cultural patterns. It introducing the concept of ‘Multiple Others' to explain how the classical concept of harmony can help integrating cultural and social differences within a social body, thus allowing social cohesion to integrate diversity. The main classical concepts of ren, li, and yi are analyzed in both Confucianism and Daoism, and compared to the concepts of recognition and dialogue developed by modern political theorists like Ch. Taylor and J. Habermas.

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Diogenes , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , November 2008 , pp. 108 - 121
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Copyright © ICPHS 2008

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