An East-West Dialogue on Good Governance: Learning from Each Other
2024
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Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy
Abstract
The topic for this session is ritual, civility, and harmony for good governance. Arguably, one of the most distinctive features of Confucianism as a cultural, philosophical, and political tradition is that it takes ritual really seriously. And in the Confucian tradition, ritual is important, especially in relation to civility and harmony. Moreover, ritual as we understand it is one of the key values that define and undergird the ideas and practices not only of the Chinese society but also of Indian and Japanese societies.
Citation
Bell, Daniel A., Edmund W. Cheng, Chunyan Ding, Elisabeth Ellis, Ruiping Fan, Alfred Ho, Sungmoon Kim, Qing Liu, Haig Patapan, Mathias Risse, Robert Sparrow, Siu Fu Tang, Julia Tao, and Ellen Y. Zhang. "Ritual, Civility, and Harmony for Good Governance." An East-West Dialogue on Good Governance: Learning from Each Other. Ed. Ruiping Fan and Sungmoon Kim. Singapore: Springer, 2024, 59-90.