| Post-confucian thesis explains the rising up of east-Asian economy. Quoting the theory of Max Weber, the thesis considers the Confucian ethics promoting the economic development and achieving the "east-Asian miracle" in Japan and "four little dragons".This thesis once compares with the view of Asian values, East Asian entrepreneur's spirit, ethics of modern administrators, and causes active disputes. Most of the supporters chime in with the thesis in defect of rational contemplation and careful argumentation. This renders post-confucian thesis lacking of precise theory foundation and abundant reasoning. The opponents own the success of east-Asian to the institutional factor. But institutionalism and culturalism differ only in angles with no conflict themselves. The argue outside system can not discover the inner shortage of this thesis and causes invalid dispute. The two disputing sides both have their misgivings rather than a deep gap, lacking of meditation.After the breakout of Asian financial crisis, post-confucian thesis loses its way as well as Asian ways. The financial crisis exposes not only the problem of Asian but also the correlative research localization. Meanwhile the growing up and declining of east-Asian gives us a new angle of view. Now the post-confucian thesis has gone with, the history, we can review it from a proper distance.Post- Confucian thesis is one of the associated Asian discourses, which include east-Asian miracle, east-Asian model, Asian values, ethics of modern administrators and new Confucianism. These dissertations gain abundant attentions in the area of history, economics, sociology, politics and philosophy. But there is nearly no treatise focusing on post-confucian thesis. That's one of the reasons for me to review the thesis historically.The first chapter of my dissertation retrospects the history of post-confucian thesis , introducing the famous delegates and main works. The headstream of this thesis involves the view of Japanese special civilization and the view of Japanese management etc, which explain the success of Japanese from the point of culture. Western scholars such as Herman.Kahn, Rvoderick MacFarquhar, Peter Berger raise the propositions of this thesis at first, while Chinese scholars abroad such as Ambrose Y.G.King, Tu Weiming, Yu Yingshi are treated as the delegatesof this thesis. This chapter also introduces the theory's development and contabescence, regarding Asian financial crisis as an " Academic incident" to analyse the strain reflecting system of post-confucian thesis. Why does this once -noted thesis fade away gradually?Once as a tender, post-confusian thesis consists of the contradictory value and academic logic. Chapter two and three analyse the academic logic while chapter four and five review the value problems.Chapter two looks back over various existences of "Weber's proposition". Some scholars regard this proposition as sacred orgin ,trying to overpass, while others overlook it. In the new point of academic history, this chapter also proposes a suppose that Weber's proposition experiences three changes. First, Weber himself promotes the development of this proposition. Second, this proposition gets a new change by two Amercian scholars 桾.Parsons and his student Robert Bellah. Third, post-confucian thesis unseemly uses Weber's theory to explain the development of east-Asian economy. With the compare of post-confucian thesis and Weber's theory, this chapter commentates why post-confucian thesis has less power of persuasion than Weber's theory.After the review of reasoning logic in Chapter two, chapter three analyses a sub-view of "industrious ethics" to make clear the inner argumentation frame. Industrious ethics considers traditional industrious thoughts promote the east-Asian economic development after the World War two. Industrious ethics is one of the most persuasible sub-view in the various points of post-confucian thesis, which makes us viable to remove interference and see about the isolated relationship between post... |
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