From Improving the People's Welfare and Reforming Administration to Parliamentary Government and Universal Education: The Political Thought of Kuai Guangdian
First, Yen was deeply edified by Confucianism, whose political ideology of "regarding the people as a nation's base", aspiration of "cultivating oneself, regulating the family and ruling the world", and upright character were all fully incarnated in James Yen.
Wu Zhihui's political thinking during the publishing period of The New Century is chiefly displayed in the opposition of feudal autocratic system,the criticism of feudal ethics,and the attack of preparatory constitutionalism of the Qing Dynasty and so on.
In order to understand the contradictory impulses of the revolutions of 1989-the desire for a radical renewal and the concern for preservation-this article takes as its point of departure the political thought of Hannah Arendt and Edmund Burke.
More specifically, I argue that in order to understand the complexity and the problematic character of the French text in the English context scholars need to take into account the role of Catholic political thought.
Understanding the role of English and European Catholic political thought can offer important insight into the current historiographical debate over the secular character of the theory of contract expressed in the Huguenot pamphlet.
The main purpose of this article is to emphasise the critical role of politics and political ideology in determining the nature of intergenerational relations.
The article summarises the ethical basis of generational solidarity, the nature of the social contract, the changes taking place in relations between the generations and the recent impact of political ideology on the social contract.
The article seeks to understand Hannah Arendt's political thinking by relating it to an issue which is crucial to the thinking of the later Heidegger, i.e., the problem of originality ( Anf?nglichkeit) and history.