Retracing the Roots and Ideals of Confucian Principles of Governance: the Art of Regulating Governance without Legal Rules in Chinese Societies

Confucius was and still is one of the most eminent Chinese philosophers. Such is the importance of Confucius’s teachings; it had influenced all aspects of social life in Chinese societies. In the post-Enron, post-Worldcom, and post-Global Financial Crisis era there are raising doubts in the mantra of the so-called conventional wisdom about law and economic order. Whilst many recent publications offered solutions to those problems like advocating for more laws, rules or reforms in regulatory institutions to enhance the regulation of corporate governance. What Confucius advocated was a non-legal, social mode of regulation based on moral ideals that should be embedded into the minds of every person. Whilst this is an ancient concept from primitive societies, its relevance and merits could be seen in modern Chinese societies like Hong Kong. In essence, Confucian principles of governance build on relational and paternalistic order based on moral ideals.

The Mind of primitive man : a course of lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., and the National University of Mexico, 1910-1911 /

Partly reprinted from various sources.

Primitive society : the beginnings of the family & the reckoning of descent /

Includes index.

The origin of civilisation and the primitive condition of man. Mental and social condition of savages.

Mode of access: Internet.

Genocide: A History

Rubinstein, William, Genocide: A History (Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2004), pp.vii+322 RAE2008

Analityczna filozofia dziejów w poznańskiej szkole metodologicznej. Próba falsyfikacji Popperowskiej krytyki historii teoretycznej

The purpose of this paper is the reconstruction of the theory of historical process elaborated at the Poznań School of Methodology. The heuristic tool will be Popper’s model of knowledge, according to which, the development of scientific theory went through the phase of the posing of the scientific problem, proposing a tentative theory, a critical discussion and its modification. Proposed by Leszek Nowak the adaptive interpretation of historical materialism was transformed – under the influence of the elaboration of the idealizational theory of science and the categorical interpretation of dialectics – into the generalized version of historical materialism. This version includes theory of the class and primitive societies. Difficulties in the building of the theory of real socialism led to the transformation of adaptive historical materialism into the non-Marxian historical materialism where some tenets of Marxism were refuted (e.g. the domination of economy over politics). In the course of the building of the adaptive interpretation of historical materialism and the non-Marxian historical materialism some primary notions were defined and modified satisfying the criteria of falsification. Although Popper severely criticized the possibility of theoretical history, the theory of history as developed at the Poznań School of Methodology satisfies his criteria of falsification. This throws doubt upon the validity of Popperian critique of theoretical history.

The evolution of morality.

Mode of access: Internet.

The natural man, as inferred mainly from field studies of men and chimpanzees.

Includes bibliographies.

Social institutions,

"This present study, while it started out to be a revision [of Social institutions, 1929] is essentially a new presentation."--Pref.

Habitat, economy and society; a geographical introduction to ethnology.

Mode of access: Internet.

Ancient society : or researches in the lines of human progress from savagery through barbarism to civilization /

Includes index and bibliographic notes.

Ancient law: its connection with the early history of society and its relation to modern ideas.

"... April, 1892. Mr. Murray's list of new publications": 28 p. at end.

The patriarchal theory; based on the papers of the late John Ferguson McLennan.

Mode of access: Internet.

Ancient law, its connection with the early history of society and its relation to modern ideas,

Mode of access: Internet.

Curiosities of savage life.

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