Book contents
- Theorizing Confucian Virtue Politics
- Theorizing Confucian Virtue Politics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Conventions
- Introduction
- Part I Confucian Constitutionalism
- 1 Interest, Morality, and Positive Confucianism
- 2 Virtue, Ritual, and Constitutionalism
- 3 Before and after Ritual: Moral Virtue and Civic Virtue
- Part II Wang, Ba, and Interstate Relations
- Conclusion: Between Old and New
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Virtue, Ritual, and Constitutionalism
from Part I - Confucian Constitutionalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 November 2019
- Theorizing Confucian Virtue Politics
- Theorizing Confucian Virtue Politics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Conventions
- Introduction
- Part I Confucian Constitutionalism
- 1 Interest, Morality, and Positive Confucianism
- 2 Virtue, Ritual, and Constitutionalism
- 3 Before and after Ritual: Moral Virtue and Civic Virtue
- Part II Wang, Ba, and Interstate Relations
- Conclusion: Between Old and New
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the previous chapter, we noted that there are two dimensions of Confucian virtue politics – positive and negative – and Xunzi brought Mencius’s underdeveloped idea of positive Confucianism to full fruition by actively expounding upon the critical role that material interest can play in creating and maintaining the Confucian civil political order.
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- Theorizing Confucian Virtue PoliticsThe Political Philosophy of Mencius and Xunzi, pp. 59 - 88Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019