Abstract
It is well known that human dignity is the fundamental value of Taiwan’s liberal democratic constitutionalism. Tracing back to the 1950s, the Neo-Confucians Hsu Fu-kuan (1904-1982) has already pointed out that human dignity is the key to resolve the problems of Chinese democratic politics. On one hand, Hsu Fu-kuan praised the Confucian theory of human nature, criticized the Chinese emperor’s dignity. Meanwhile, he stressed several essential ideals of constitutionalism, such as democracy, human rights, the rule of law and so on, to reinforce his points on the other hand. This article shall discuss Hsu Fu-kuan’s ideals of human dignity and democracy, figuring out how these influential ideas penetrate Taiwanese liberal democratic constitutionalism nowadays.
Keywords
Hsu Fu-kuan, human dignity, emperor’s dignity, Confucianism
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