Roy Tseng is Research Fellow and Professor at the Center for Political Thought, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He is the author of The Sceptical Idealist: Michael Oakeshott as a Critic of the Enlightenment.

"This is the first book-length treatment in any language to take fully seriously the relationship between Hegel and Mou Zongsan's philosophy. In addition to dramatically improving our understanding of key aspects of Mou's thought, it opens up important new ground for cross-cultural philosophical development and significantly shifts the terrain of contemporary Confucian political philosophy." — Stephen C. Angle, author of Growing Moral: A Confucian Guide to Life

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Confucianism Meets LiberalismPart I: Confucian Ethics 1. Confucianism in Comparative Perspective2. Returning to Moral Religion3. The Endless Pursuit of Self-PerfectionPart II: Civil Liberalism 4. Democracy and the Politics of Innovation5. Civility and the Renovation of Tradition6. The Confucian Political Ideal RevisitedPart III: Perfectionist Liberalism 7. Confucian Res Publica: Citizens and the State8. Freedom and RightsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Roy Tseng is Research Fellow and Professor at the Center for Political Thought, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He is the author of The Sceptical Idealist: Michael Oakeshott as a Critic of the Enlightenment.

"This is the first book-length treatment in any language to take fully seriously the relationship between Hegel and Mou Zongsan's philosophy. In addition to dramatically improving our understanding of key aspects of Mou's thought, it opens up important new ground for cross-cultural philosophical development and significantly shifts the terrain of contemporary Confucian political philosophy." — Stephen C. Angle, author of Growing Moral: A Confucian Guide to Life

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Confucianism Meets LiberalismPart I: Confucian Ethics 1. Confucianism in Comparative Perspective2. Returning to Moral Religion3. The Endless Pursuit of Self-PerfectionPart II: Civil Liberalism 4. Democracy and the Politics of Innovation5. Civility and the Renovation of Tradition6. The Confucian Political Ideal RevisitedPart III: Perfectionist Liberalism 7. Confucian Res Publica: Citizens and the State8. Freedom and RightsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Roy Tseng is Research Fellow and Professor at the Center for Political Thought, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He is the author of The Sceptical Idealist: Michael Oakeshott as a Critic of the Enlightenment.

"This is the first book-length treatment in any language to take fully seriously the relationship between Hegel and Mou Zongsan's philosophy. In addition to dramatically improving our understanding of key aspects of Mou's thought, it opens up important new ground for cross-cultural philosophical development and significantly shifts the terrain of contemporary Confucian political philosophy." — Stephen C. Angle, author of Growing Moral: A Confucian Guide to Life

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Confucianism Meets LiberalismPart I: Confucian Ethics 1. Confucianism in Comparative Perspective2. Returning to Moral Religion3. The Endless Pursuit of Self-PerfectionPart II: Civil Liberalism 4. Democracy and the Politics of Innovation5. Civility and the Renovation of Tradition6. The Confucian Political Ideal RevisitedPart III: Perfectionist Liberalism 7. Confucian Res Publica: Citizens and the State8. Freedom and RightsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex