Potential

Alex Mackinnon and Barnaby Powell

Chapter Chapter 11 in China Counting, 2010, pp 157-171 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The challenge for the West is to reconcile its value systems of democratic rule and fundamental freedoms of movement, speech, expression and assembly with China’s monolithic, authoritarian and collectivist one-party rule and its Confucian heritage — but not to try to impose them. In this equation, there is an essential difference in the notion and quality of freedom: the Chinese sense of self is much more closely bound up with family obligation and pride in the standing of the nation. The Westerner is more concerned with the extent of individual autonomy: as the American philosopher, John Dewey, says, ‘What men actually cherish under the name of freedom is that power of varied and flexible growth, of change and disposition of character, that springs from intelligent choice.’

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Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230251038_12

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