유교 전통 속의 공공성: 그 특징과 현재적 함의 ; 유교적 공공성의 문법과 그 민주주의적 함의 = Publicness in the Confucian Tradition ; Grammar of Confucian Publicness and its Democratic Implications

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Recently, the negative effects of neo-liberal globalization and the so-called “peaceful rise” of the People`s Republic of China are prompting multi-pronged discussions about the relationship between democracy and Confucianism. From the perspective of ``more democracy``, this paper explores some democratic implications inherent in the grammar of Confucian publicness. I will 1) present the grammar of Confucian publicness in relation to Confucian enlightenment politics, and 2) briefly point out the democratic implications of that grammar in relation to the current crisis in publicness. Realizing these implications in the contemporary context requires a critical reconstruction of that grammar. So I will 3) critique the association of Confucian public deliberation with elitism, and 4) show a way to critically reconstruct the Neo-Confucian concepts of reason(天理). And I will propose 5) that the potential paths from Confucian publicness to democratical publicness through this critical reconstruction could be understood as a dialectic of Confucian enlightenment, and finally 6) explicate the significance of this dialectic in connection with the paradoxes of freedom we now face.