Political Liberalism, Confucianism, and the Future of Democracy in East Asia

Zhuoyao Li is assistant professor of philosophy at St. John’s University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston College, where he studied social and political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of law, and philosophy of economics. His main research interests are contemporary debates between political liberalism and liberal perfectionism, the implications of political liberalism in non-liberal societies, as well as comparative philosophy and political theory. His works on these topics have appeared in the Review of Politics, Philosophy East and West, Ethics & Global Politics, among other publications. He also serves as the managing editor of Philosophy & Social Criticism.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1: Political Liberalism and the Paradigm Shift of Political Philosophy.- Chapter 2: The Public Conception of Morality in Political Liberalism.- Chapter 3: Against the Asymmetry Objection.- Chapter 4: The Idea of Hyperpluralism and Pluralism in East Asia.- Chapter 5: Confucianism and Comprehensive Confucian Perfectionism.- Chapter 6: The Discontents of Moderate Political Confucianism.- Chapter 7: Politica; Confucianism and Multivariate Democracy in East Asia.- Chapter 8: Towards a Pluralistic Approach to Antiperfectonism.- Chapter 9: Respect, Recognition, and Toleration: A Concentric Theory of Global Justice.- Conclusion.- Bibliograpy.