Revelation in Confucianism

2021 ◽  
pp. 403-419
Author(s):  
Joshua R. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Confucian Tradition

This chapter surveys revelation-analogous concepts as they are present and/or refuted according to the early Chinese Confucian tradition. Although Confucianism does not hold to the divine revealing itself in direct ways, the tradition does have concepts that function as similar to revelation, such as the Five Classics, the figures of ancient sages and teachers, as well as belief in omens and augury. Thus, the chapter argues that Confucianism can provide resources to understand and develop a theology of revelation in those traditions which do hold to the explicit foundation of divine self-communication.

Ethics in the Confucian Tradition: The Thought of Mencius and Wang Yang-ming

1994 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 559
Author(s):  
Henry G. Skaja ◽  
Philip J. Ivanhoe
Keyword(s):  
Confucian Tradition

scholarly journals The Right to Survival in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiyoung Song
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Confucian Tradition ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
North Korean Defectors ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Over Time

AbstractFor the past decade, the author has examined North Korean primary public documents and concludes that there have been changes of identities and ideas in the public discourse of human rights in the DPRK: from strong post-colonialism to Marxism-Leninism, from there to the creation of Juche as the state ideology and finally 'our style' socialism. This paper explains the background to Kim Jong Il's 'our style' human rights in North Korea: his broader framework, 'our style' socialism, with its two supporting ideational mechanisms, named 'virtuous politics' and 'military-first politics'. It analyses how some of these characteristics have disappeared while others have been reinforced over time. Marxism has significantly withered away since the end of the Cold War, and communism was finally deleted from the latest 2009 amended Socialist Constitution, whereas the concept of sovereignty has been strengthened and the language of duties has been actively employed by the authority almost as a relapse to the feudal Confucian tradition. The paper also includes some first-hand accounts from North Korean defectors interviewed in South Korea in October–December 2008. They show the perception of ordinary North Koreans on the ideas of human rights.

scholarly journals Some aspects of the authorship of the treatise “Xiao Jing”

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 1279-1300
Author(s):  
Anastasia Yu. Blazhkina
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Filial Piety ◽  
Russian Translation ◽  
Confucian Tradition ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
High Significance ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Additional Information

The article deals with the authorship of the Confucian treatise Xiao Jing (“The Classic of Filial Piety”). Xiao Jing is one of the classical treatises that constitutes a part of the Confucian corpus Shisan Jing (“The Thirteen Classics”). This confirms the importance and high significance of this text for the traditional philosophical thought of China. The earliest mention of the title “Xiao Jing” was recorded in the work from the 3rd century BC, Lu shi chun qiu (“Spring and Autumn of Mr Liu”), which indicates the terminus ante quem non for the treatise Xiao Jing. According to some Russian scholars, the treatise Xiao Jing was compiled in the IV-II centuries BC. The Chinese scholarship acknowledges eight main versions of authorship, and therefore dating of Xiao Jing. The author stresses the importance to establish the authorship of the Xiao Jing treatise since this can be a piece of additional information for a comprehensive understanding of the philosophical heritage of the Confucian tradition of this text. After presenting an outline of the main versions of authorship of the Xiao Jing treatise, the author states that this issue can hardly be solved unambiguously. Therefore, this article can be considered as a preliminary essay for further research. The appendix offers a complete Russian translation of the Xiao Jing made by the author of the present article.

scholarly journals The Future of Meritocracy: A Discussion of Daniel Bell’s The China Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Yongle Zhang ◽  
Colleen Howe
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Western World ◽  
Confucian Tradition ◽  
World Today ◽  
The Future ◽  
China Model ◽  
Political Legitimation ◽  
Political Meritocracy

Abstract Compared to Wang Shaoguang’s approach to re-interpret the old concept “democracy” to overcome the Schumpeterian model of political legitimation, Daniel Bell’s Political Meritocracy takes a more challenging path, attempting to build a new discourse of legitimacy centering on the concept “meritocracy” and incorporating elements of ancient China’s traditions, the socialist revolutions in the twentieth century, and the system of competitive elections common in the Western world today. This inspiring work is full of incisive arguments, but could be improved by further considering the tension between the Confucian tradition and the revolutionary tradition in the twentieth century.

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