Human rights and Chinese thought : a cross-cultural inquiry / Stephen C. Angle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Angle, Stephen C., 1964- author.

Series:

Cambridge modern China series.

Cambridge modern China series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--China.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 285 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What should we make of claims by members of other groups to have moralities different from our own? Human Rights in Chinese Thought gives an extended answer to this question in the first study of its kind. It integrates a full account of the development of Chinese rights discourse - reaching back to important, though neglected, origins of that discourse in 17th and 18th century Confucianism - with philosophical consideration of how various communities should respond to contemporary Chinese claims about the uniqueness of their human rights concepts. The book elaborates a plausible kind of moral pluralism and demonstrates that Chinese ideas of human rights do indeed have distinctive characteristics, but it nonetheless argues for the importance and promise of cross-cultural moral engagement.

Contents:

Introduction

Languages, concepts, and pluralism

The consequences of pluralism

The shift toward legitimate desires in neo-Confucianism

Nineteenth-century origins

Dynamism in the early twentieth century

Change, continuity, and convergence prior to 1949

Engagement despite distinctiveness

Conclusions.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-274) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12497-2

0-511-30445-5

0-511-17644-9

0-511-15729-0

1-280-43386-8

0-511-49922-1

0-521-00752-6

0-511-04487-9

OCLC:

776951671