ABSTRACT As an advocate of ‘comparative political theory,’ Fred Dallmayr has long engaged with Confucianism with a new vision for democracy suitable in East Asia but little attention has been paid to his idea of Confucian democracy, which he presents as a specific mode of ethical or relational democracy. This paper investigates Dallmayr’s ethical vision of Confucian democracy, first, by articulating his postmodern reconceptualization of democracy in terms of post-humanism and, second, by examining his post-humanist reevaluation of Confucian virtue ethics as a critical resource for ethical democracy. It argues that the ethical vision of Confucian democracy, though morally appealing, should not dismiss the important instrumental value of democracy as a political system and, rather, find a way to integrate democracy’s instrumental and intrinsic values in a way that can enhance the qualitative relationality between people, political agents, and the common good.

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弗雷德·多玛尔对儒家民主的后现代视野：批判性考察

摘要作为“比较政治理论”的倡导者，弗雷德·达尔迈尔（Fred Dallmayr）长期以来以一种适用于东亚的民主新视野与儒家进行了交往，但他对儒家民主的思想却很少关注，他将儒家民主作为一种特定的道德模式提出。或关系民主。本文首先考察了达尔迈尔对儒家民主的伦理观，从后人本主义角度阐明了他对民主的后现代重新概念化，其次，考察了他对儒家美德伦理学作为道德民主的重要资源的后人文主义重新评价。它认为，儒家民主的道德观尽管在道德上具有吸引力，但不应忽视民主作为一种政治制度的重要工具价值，而是，