BOOK REVIEW——Stephen C. Angle, Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy.研究.pdf

Front．Philos．China2014，9(3)：484--490 D0I10．3868／s030—003．014．0040．7 StephenC．Angle，ContemporaryConfucianPoliticalPhilosophy．Cambridge， U．K．：PolityPress，2012，204pp．ISBN：9780745661308． ContemporaryConfucianPoliticalPhilosopvcanberegardedasacreative developmentandcomprehensiveexpressionofStephenC．Angle’SforlTlerworks integrating Neo—Confuc【ian tradition and contemporary ethicaland political thought．Hecitestheideaofconservatism from MOUZongsanandTangJunyito proposehisownideathatconservatism isrootedinereativepractice．Itisinthe amrmationofbasicConfucianvaluesthathesetsuphisview ofprogress，which meansgrowingethicallyandmakingtheworldbe~er(18—19)．Inthislight， ProgressiveConfucianism canbeseenasatheory thatinterpretsandconserves traditionalConfucianvaluesinagreementwith contemporary demands．Thusit can be comparedwithwestern ethics．especiallywith liberalism which also emphasizescivicvirtueandmoraleducation．AndSOProgressiveConfucianism aimsatopeningupdimensionslikeconstitutionalism anddemocracythataccord withWestem traditionswhileremainingconsistentwithConfucian ethicsand rituals． 1 Rooted GlobalPhilosophy：The Root ofProgressive Confucianism Inorderto introducethecontemporary politicaldimensionsinConfucianism， AngledrawsonMOU Zongsan’Snotion ofSelf-Restriction andusesitin the politicalarena．with particular emphasison the importance ofM OU’S third premiseof “obiectivestrucutres．’’Threeprinciplesareproposedtorealize self-restriction，namely,thateverybodyrealizesvirtueatthe same time，that virtue be embodied in individua1achievements．and that the action of self-cultivationcanonlybeassuredwhentheoutsidepoliticalsiutationensures realizationofethicalvaluesf30)．InSOdoingheproposesofV“irtue—Ritual— Politics．”andhesetsaboutinvestigatingtherelationbetweenvirtue，law,andthe intermediary agentofriuta1．wherevirtuerepresentsethicalvalueand law representspoliticalvalue．To easethetensionbetween virtueandpolitics．the middlerealm ofritualiSintrod