@inbook{bed45883ec68411e9b0c293fd17ec101,
title = "Confucianism and the State",
abstract = "This chapter introduces the Confucian perspective on the state with special attention to its underlying paradigm of virtue politics. It examines the pre-Qin establishment of the ideal of the “family-state” by classical Confucians such as Confucius and Mencius, which stipulates that the state exists to serve the well-being of the people and the ruler ought to treat the people like his own children; its radical transformation with the rise of Legalistic Confucianism after the Han dynasty; and the Neo-Confucian challenge to the imperial state, which stressed the perfect congruence between loyalty and filial piety in the service of the emperor{\textquoteright}s absolutist power. It concludes by discussing the two most dominant visions of the Confucian state in contemporary Confucian political theory—Confucian democracy and Confucian political meritocracy. {\textcopyright} Oxford University Press",
keywords = "Confucian democracy, Confucius, family-state, Legalistic Confucianism, Mencius, Neo-Confucianism, state, political meritocracy, virtue politics",
author = "Sungmoon Kim",
year = "2023",
month = mar,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190906184.013.32",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780190906184",
series = "Oxford Handbooks",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "395--407",
editor = "Jennifer Oldstone-Moore",
booktitle = "The Oxford Handbook of Confucianism",
address = "United Kingdom",
}