Nebeški mandat in dve vrsti resnice: kontrastna analiza Tang Junyijevega in Mou Zongsanovega modela konfucijanske demokracije

The majority of modern scholars believed that Confucianism was an obsolete and outdated ideology, which is not only inappropriate for the development of modern sciences and democratic societies, but also responsible for a deep social and political crisis that has marked China during the last two centuries. The Taiwanese Modern Confucians, however, have never assumed that the Confucian system was responsible for such a situation. Most of them believed that Confucianism is compatible with science and democracy. Besides, the majority of them assumed that the East Asian cultures will never be able to develop truly democratic structures of their societies unless they take in consideration the appropriate elements of their own, i.e. Confucian traditions. This paper critically analyses Tang Junyi’s and Mou Zongsan’s theoretical models of a possible revival of Confucian proto-democracies.Večina modernih teoretičark in teoretikov je menila, da je konfucijanstvo zastarela ideologija, ki ni samo neprimerna za razvoj modernih znanosti in demokratičnih družb, temveč je tudi merodajno odgovorna za globoko družbeno in politično krizo, ki je zaznamovala Kitajsko v zadnjih dvesto letih. Tajvanski moderni konfucijanci pa v tem idejnem sistemu niso videli krivca za ta položaj. Večinoma so menili, da je konfucijanstvo popolnoma združljivo tako z znanostjo kot tudi z demokracijo. Večina jih je pri tem celo zagovarjala stališče, da vzhodnoazijske kulture v okviru svojih družbenih specifik ne bodo mogle razviti demokratičnih ustrojev družbe, če se pri tem ne bodo oprle na ustrezne elemente lastne, torej konfucijanske tradicije. Ta članek kritično analizira Tang Junyijev in Mou Zongsanov teoretski model možnega preporoda konfucijanskih protodemokracij