Abstract
While Confucianism is quite concerned about the people’s welfare, its dominant political position is not “people-oriented” (minbenwei 民本位) but rather “ruler-oriented” (wang benwei 王本位), which is described by the New-Confucian thinker, Xiong Shili as “taking the great righteousness of being respectful to the ruler as the foremost.” In virtue of this very righteousness, Confucianism not only subordinates “people-orientation” to “ruler-orientation,” but also denies the value of the former for the sake of the latter in case of conflict.
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