Confucian values treatise of PM Lee not worthy of mention?

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After citing John Major, Lee labelled the idea of checks and balances as “Western” and held up the Confucian stress on virtuous leaders.

On 14 February, Parliament debated on what actions the House should take on having received the report of the Committee of Privileges . Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong who rose tocited former British Prime Minister John Major to support the referral of the senior leaders of the Workers’ Party , Pritam Singh and Faisal Manap, to the public prosecutor.

“In Confucian thought, there are four social guidelines that hold a state together: rituals, righteousness, probity, and shame . Probity, or desisting from corruption, is about upright behaviour; it is a norm that can be enforced using laws. But shame, a reaction to wrongdoing, is a moral disposition; it is about one’s own sense of right and wrong, whether we know we have done the right thing, or we know we have fallen short, even when nobody said so.

Except for the Straits Times, no other newspapers saw PM Lee’s treatise on Confucian values as worthy of mention.

 

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