At an international conference on Confucian morality held in Beijing last summer, the American Sinologist Merle Goodman argued that Confucian thought has a serious flaw: If the ruler decides to deny human rights, there is nothing the intellectuals can do about it.
去年夏天於北京舉行的「儒家的人論」國際研討會上，美國漢學家高德曼也表示，儒家思想有一個嚴重的缺失：假如當政者對個人權益持否定態度，知識份子就無能為力了。