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- Title
Metaphor and Public Discourse: From Kingly Governance to Constitutional Democracy.
- Authors
Teng, Norman Y.
- Abstract
Metaphor is a basic conceptual device for framing and reframing ideas and ways of reasoning. I propose an integrative account of metaphorical reframing in the Mengzi and the Zhuangzi, and argue that this basic conceptual device can be redeployed to connect the Confucian ideal of kingly governance to constitutional democracy and civil engagement in public discourse. Rawls’ theory of justice and its related idea of public reason are used as a reference point in relation to which the integrative account is developed.
- Subjects
METAPHOR -- Social aspects; DISCOURSE -- Social aspects; FRAMES (Social sciences); MONARCHY -- Social aspects; REASON -- Social aspects; DEMOCRACY; PUBLIC sphere -- Social aspects
- Publication
Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, 2011, Vol 41, Issue 3, p523
- ISSN
0577-9170
- Publication type
Article