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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/confucian-democratic-constitut
 ionalism-between-legal-and-political/
SUMMARY:Confucian Democratic Constitutionalism: Between Legal and Political
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Edmond &amp\; Lily Safra Center for Ethics\, c
 o-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute\n\nSign-up here to attend th
 e lecture: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4ba4a72fa6f9c61-lecture#/\
 n\nEvent information (Safra Center website)\n\nEvent directions: To access
  the Edmond &amp\; Lily Safra Center Seminar Room\, take the elevator fro
 m the lobby up to the 5th floor\; the suite is to the left. \n\nIn this t
 alk\, Sungmoon Kim presents a constitutional theory of democratic self-gov
 ernment that is normatively appealing and politically practicable in East 
 Asia’s historically Confucian societies that are increasingly pluralist\
 , multicultural\, and rights sensitive—namely\, Confucian democratic con
 stitutionalism. Confucian democratic constitutionalism understands the cit
 izenry’s democratic self-government as its core and takes the democratic
  legislature as its driving engine\, the venue where constitutional norms\
 , values\, and rights are deliberated and vetted in accordance with the pr
 ocedures guided by the Confucian ideal of egalitarian dignity. At the same
  time\, Confucian democratic constitutionalism acknowledges both the court
 ’s status as one of the important guardians of the political society’s
  core values and its role to protect individual and minority rights\, the 
 moral contents of which are deeply interwoven with Confucian values. As ne
 ither liberal-legal nor purely political\, Kim’s Confucian democratic ac
 count of constitutionalism includes three key elements: (1) rejection of t
 he categorical distinction between principle and policy\, (2) endorsement 
 of the people’s right to reconceptualize and meaningfully exercise right
 s\, and (3) the use of Confucian public reason.\n\nBio: Sungmoon Kim is a 
 professor of political theory at City University of Hong Kong\, where he a
 lso serves as Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sci
 ences and Director of the Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy
 . Kim specializes in Confucian political theory\, East Asian political tho
 ught\, and comparative political theory\, and his research has appeared in
  journals such as American Political Science Review\, Contemporary Polit
 ical Theory\, European Journal of Political Theory\, History of Politica
 l Thought\, Journal of Politics\, and The Review of Politics\, among oth
 ers. As the 2016-17 Berggruen Fellow at the Safra and Lily Center for Ethi
 cs\, Kim has published five books including Democracy after Virtue: Towar
 d Pragmatic Confucian Democracy (Oxford University Press\, 2018) and Pub
 lic Reason Confucianism: Democratic Perfectionism and Constitutionalism in
  East Asia (Cambridge University Press\, 2016). His new book entitled Co
 nfucian Constitutionalism: Dignity\, Rights\, and Democracy will be publi
 shed by Oxford University Press in June.\n\n
LOCATION:Edmond & Lily Safra Center Seminar Room\, 124 Mount Auburn Street\
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