The Confucian concepts of tianxia天下, yi-xia 夷夏and Chinese nationalism

IF 0.5 2区哲学 0 ASIAN STUDIES

ASIAN PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2022-12-12 DOI:10.1080/09552367.2022.2155351

Zhaohui Mao

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Abstract

ABSTRACT There are two views on the nature of Chinese nationalism. The one view treats Chinese nationalism as political nationalism while the other recognises it as cultural nationalism. This paper argues that Chinese nationalism had been deeply shaped by Confucianism, which has two important and influential concepts of nationalism: tianxia天下and yi-xia夷夏. These two concepts reflect the two facets of Confucian nationalism. With the first facet, manifested in the concept of tianxia, Confucianism emphasizes cultural identity and the pursuit of a kind of benevolent politics; the second facet, manifested in the concept of yi-xia, stresses political identity. As in Mencius, the concept of nationalism is based on his theory of human nature and self-cultivation, and the self-identity of a politician is transformable between the two levels of the yi-xia distinction, along with his self-cultivation. Thus, Confucian nationalism is based on self-cultivation, rather than self-identity.

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儒家的天下思想、天下思想与中国民族主义

关于中国民族主义的本质，有两种观点。一种观点认为中国民族主义是政治民族主义，另一种观点认为中国民族主义是文化民族主义。本文认为，中国的民族主义深受儒家思想的影响，儒家思想中有两个重要而有影响的民族主义概念:天下论和夷论。这两个概念反映了儒家民族主义的两个方面。第一方面，儒家强调文化认同，追求一种仁政，表现为天下观念;第二个方面，表现在“以霞”概念上，强调政治认同。正如孟子所言，民族主义的概念是建立在他的人性论和修身论的基础上的，一个政治家的自我认同是随着他的修身而在这两种层次之间转换的。因此，儒家民族主义是基于自我修养，而不是自我认同。

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期刊介绍： Asian Philosophy is an international journal concerned with such philosophical traditions as Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Buddhist and Islamic. The purpose of the journal is to bring these rich and varied traditions to a worldwide academic audience. It publishes articles in the central philosophical areas of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, moral and social philosophy, as well as in applied philosophical areas such as aesthetics and jurisprudence. It also publishes articles comparing Eastern and Western philosophical traditions.