Rescuing Democracy on the Path to Meritocracy

Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 1 (1):75-78 (2022)
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I think Tongdong Bai's Confucian Meritocracy requires a lot of idealisation. Feasibility aside, should we realise the conditions for Confucian Meritocracy to work, we would have created the ideal situation for democracy to function properly. This challenges the purported advantages Confucian Meritocracy enjoys over democracy.

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