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Confucianism and Human Rights
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Description for Confucianism and Human Rights
Paperback. In essays exploring the relationship of contemporary human rights doctrine to the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, this volume investigates concepts such as the individual in relation to the state; the notion of "rights" in ritual and law; and justice, constitutionalism, and intellectual freedom in Chinese and Western traditions. Editor(s): De Bary, William Theodore; Tu, Weiming. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: HRKN1; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Is the Confucian tradition compatible with the Western understanding of human rights? Are there fundamental human values, regardless of cultural differences, common to all peoples of all nations? At this critical point in Communist China's history, eighteen distinguished scholars address the role of Confucianism in dealing with questions of universal human rights.
Is the Confucian tradition compatible with the Western understanding of human rights? Are there fundamental human values, regardless of cultural differences, common to all peoples of all nations? At this critical point in Communist China's history, eighteen distinguished scholars address the role of Confucianism in dealing with questions of universal human rights.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231109376
SKU
V9780231109376
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99-1
About Unknown
Wm. Theodore de Bary is the author or editor of more than two dozen works on Asian civilizations, including Sources of Chinese Tradition and Sources of Japanese Tradition. Tu Weiming is the editor of China in Transformation and author of Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today, and Way, Meaning and Politics: Essays on the Confucian Intellectual. ... Read more
Reviews for Confucianism and Human Rights
An ambitious book, dealing with human nature, according to classical Confucian philosophers, analogies between rights and rites, and Confucian influences in 20th-century China.
Stefan B. Polter Asian Affairs This rich volume, a feast for the mind, a joy to the soul, is so wise in seeing that the human rights discourse is not the singular fruit of a peculiar ... Read more
Stefan B. Polter Asian Affairs This rich volume, a feast for the mind, a joy to the soul, is so wise in seeing that the human rights discourse is not the singular fruit of a peculiar ... Read more