This article aims to critically evaluate the recent proposals of Confucian political meritocracy by focusing on two sets of questions: the first set on the connection between traditional Confucianism and Confucian political meritocracy and the second set on the nature of Confucian political meritocracy (often presented in terms of ‘democratic meritocracy’) as an alternative version of democratic theory combining the instrumental conception of (minimal) democracy with Confucian perfectionism. After laying out some specific questions belonging to each set as the theoretical challenges for Confucian political theory to becoming a robust political theory, the article further asks how distinguished Confucian political meritocracy is from Confucian democracy that is often equally premised on the combination of the instrumental conception of democracy with Confucian perfectionism without dismissing the critical importance of good political leadership.

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儒家贤能政治的挑战：批判性介绍

本文旨在通过关注两组问题来批判性地评估儒家贤能政治的近期建议：第一组关于传统儒家与儒家贤能政治之间的联系，第二组关于儒家贤能政治的本质（通常以术语表示） “民主任人唯贤”）作为民主理论的替代版本，将（最小）民主的工具性概念与儒家完美主义相结合。在列出属于每一组的一些具体问题作为儒家政治理论成为强大的政治理论的理论挑战之后，