Counter to ‘political meritocracy’, the goal of this article is to present a different approach to incorporating the Confucian political ideal into an ethical modification of liberal democracy, namely ‘ethical democracy’, encouraged by Mou Zongsan. In Mou’s words, ethical democracy arises from a synthesis of ‘the way of politics’ related to liberal democracy and ‘the way of governance’ underlining ‘humane government’. Rather than restricting his focus to a process of selecting the virtuous leaders, Mou’s project, as I hope to show, has the deeper purpose of resting the basis of liberal democracy on a set of political virtues rooted in ‘humane government’. Having given a detailed analysis of Confucian political virtues in terms of the purpose of government and the limits on the abuse of power, I intend to conclude this article by indicating Mou’s pioneering contributions to the recent development of Confucian democratic theory in opposition to Confucian meritocratic discourse.

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贤能政治与伦理民主：重新审视儒家政治理想

与“贤能政治”相反，本文的目的是提出一种不同的方法，将儒家政治理想纳入自由民主的伦理修正，即牟宗三所鼓励的“伦理民主”。用牟氏的话来说，伦理民主源于与自由民主相关的“政治方式”和强调“人道政府”的“治理方式”的综合。正如我希望表明的那样，牟的计划并没有将他的重点限制在选择有道德的领导人的过程上，而是具有更深层次的目的，即将自由民主的基础建立在植根于“人道政府”的一系列政治美德之上。从治理的目的和对权力滥用的限制等方面详细分析了儒家的政治美德，