Confucian Democracy: A Deweyan Reconstruction -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Confucian Democracy? -- Divining the Future -- Whose Confucianism? -- Which Democracy? -- Liberals and Communitarians -- Dewey and Confucius -- 2. Social Individuals -- Liberal Self and Autonomy -- Unique Rather Than Autonomous Individuals -- Dewey's Social Self-in-the-Making -- Constructing a Confucian Conception of Self -- Tension between Distinctness and Connectedness -- Choice in the Liberal-Communitarian Debate -- Dewey On Willing and Choosing -- Confucian Choice: Learning and Thinking -- Confucian Personal Commitment -- Individuality and Organic Sociality -- 3. Harmonious Communities -- Society and Community -- Nonexclusionary Community -- The Art of Community: Achieving Harmony -- Achieving Harmony through Confucian Ritual Practice -- The Science of Community: Cooperative Inquiry -- Equality and Differentiated Orders -- Equality in Human Relations -- 4. Ethico-Political Orders -- The Political Domains of Procedural Republics -- Ethico-Political Ends -- Dewey on Politics in Ancient China -- The Sage-King: An Ideal in Question -- Exemplary Persons: Ethico-Political Ends-in-View -- People As Basis (MINBEN ) -- The Role of the People in TIANMING -- Are People Good Enough for Self-Government? -- Faith in People -- 5. Authoritative Freedom -- Negative and Positive Freedoms -- Freedom As Growth -- Confucian Positive Freedom -- Right to Speak and Right Speech -- Rights or Rites? -- Authoritative versus Authoritarian -- Coercion and Authority in Imperfect Situations -- 6. Cultivating Democracy -- Reconstructing Confucianism and Democracy -- Democracy and the REALPOLITIK of Stability -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.