Government by Propriety: Why the Political Is also Personal... Huang Yong
I. Introduction
II. The Political/Personal Division in the Liberal Tradition and Its Problems
III. The Possibility of a Confucian Political Philosophy
IV. Propriety as External Rules
V. Propriety as Inner Feelings
VI. Propriety as Human Nature
VII. Defending the Neo-Confucian Propriety as a Political Philosophy
VIII. Conclusion
第五篇為英文稿,由黃勇解說中國的禮治如何使政治(眾人之事)也可以變得很個人(Why the Political Is also Personal)。本文藉著闡述自由主義傳統中政治或個人的分化及其形成的問題,提出「一個儒家政治哲學」的可能性問題。作者認為,儒家的「禮」有三種特質:(1)外在的規範,(2)內在的情感,(3)人性的本質。根據此三種特質,乃可以建構出儒家新「禮」論的政治哲學。