Gliederung

I State and Society

Construction of the Modern State in China´s Political Reform

Li Qiang

Principal-Agency Theory: To Understand the Origin and Utility of Government

Wang Zhenhai

King, the Convener-Dong Zhonshu´s Ideas of Nation Status and Role of "Leading Power" in Origin of the Nation

Ouyang Ying

A Tentative Study on Cultural Demands in Knowledge-Based Society

Qiao Ruijin

Knowledge Society and It´s Demands

Wang Shouchang

II State and Individuals

Liberty, Solidarity and Justice

Gu Su

Externality of Liberty

Shan Jingang

State Guards Human Rights: Its Status and Role

Jiang Yi

Human Rights in the Tension between the State Individuals

Lu Feng

Role of Civil Society in the Development of Modern States

Gerhard Kruip

On the Civil Society

Gan Shaoping

Effects of Civil Society on Modern States

Gong Qun

III What Hold the Society Together?

Diversity of Global Culture Communities and Legitimization of Co-existence of Multiple Cultural-Political Ideas

Li Pengcheng

Cultural Community as the Base of Common Life

Hou Cai

Culture Community and Common Life

Liu Yongfu

Lawfulness and Legal Proceedings as a Common Clip

Erhard Denninger

Nation as Common Experience-An Analysis from the Angle of Political Philosophy

Ren Jiantao

On Nationalism: with Resources from Liberalism

Gao Quanxi

IV Challenges for Political Philosophy

Three Universalisms in International Politics

Tong Shijun

"Tianxia System": Empire and World System

Zhao Tingyiang

The Future of Democracy: Liberty and Selfcultivation

Rolf Elberfeld

Democracy: the Way to Social Compromise

Han Zhen

Modernization and Democratization

Yao Dazhi