Volume 64, Issue 4, Fall 2020
Philosophy in a Time of Pandemic
Tongdong Bai
Pages 827-832
The Pandemic’s Challenges to Liberal Democracy
From a Chinese Philosophy Perspective
The -19 pandemic highlights the following problems: the balance between the private and the public within a liberal framework; the merits and the limits of a liberal democracy in governance; and the inadequacy of a nation-states-led global order. In light of these problems, I will offer some Confucian alternatives.