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The Soft Power in the Confucian “Kingly Way”

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In his “To perpetual peace: A philosophical sketch” [1795], Immanuel Kant argues that perpetual peace in global society is guaranteed not by the improvement of the moral quality of the human race, but by the force of nature

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  1. Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong

    Carole Hoyan Hang Fung

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    Ruiping Fan

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Yeung†, A., Hoyan Hang Fung, C. (2011). The Soft Power in the Confucian “Kingly Way”. In: Fan, R. (eds) The Renaissance of Confucianism in Contemporary China. Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1542-4_8

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