Lockdown Interview with Daniel A. Bell and Wang Pei in Shanghai

Hierarchy is taboo in the modern world yet attempts to do away with it have often led to new forms of tyranny. Renowned Confucian scholar and political theorist Daniel A Bell joins professor Wang Pei in the co-authored work Just Hierarchy to argue that we should neither think it possible nor desirable to achieve equality without social hierarchy. Bell and Wang draw on Confucian and Daoist thought to lay out the case for morally justified hierarchies as distinct from those history resolutely condemns.Follow The Booking Club:Twitter: @bookingclubpodInstagram: @bookingclubpodFacebook: @bookingclubpodTikTok: @bookingclubpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jackaldane.substack.com/subscribe