Human Rights in Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural InquiryCambridge University Press, 24 jun 2002 - 285 pagina's "China poses great challenges to human rights in theory and practice. In practice, China is considered, by the measure of most Western countries, to have a patchy record of protecting individuals' human rights. In the theoretical realm, Chinese intellectuals and government officials have challenged the idea that the term "human rights" can be universally understood in one single way and have often opposed attempts by Western countries to impose international standards on Asian countries." "What should we make of these challenges - and of claims by members of other groups to have moralities of their own? Human Rights and Chinese Thought gives an extended answer to these questions in the first study of its kind. Stephen C. Angle integrates a full account of the development of Chinese rights discourse - reaching back to important, although neglected, origins of that discourse in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Confucianism - with philosophical considerations of how various communities should respond to contemporary Chinese claims about the uniqueness of their human rights concepts." "Drawing on Western thinkers such as Richard Rorty, Alasdair MacIntyre, Michael Walzer, Allan Gibbard, and Robert Brandom, Angle elaborates a plausible kind of moral pluralism and demonstrates that Chinese ideas of human rights do indeed have distinctive characteristics. His conclusion is not that we should ignore one another, though. Despite our differences, Angle argues that cross-cultural moral engagement is legitimate and even morally required. International moral dialogue is a dynamic and complex process, and we all have good reasons for continuing to work toward bridging our differences."--Jacket. |
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 1 |
11 Recent History | 3 |
Insights and Limitations | 5 |
121 Pluralism | 6 |
122 Universalism | 8 |
123 Thick and Thin | 11 |
124 Dialogue and Transformation | 15 |
125 History and Confucianisms | 19 |
54 Reformers in the 1890s | 123 |
541 Traditions of Reform | 124 |
542 Minquan to 1898 | 128 |
543 Individual Rights? | 130 |
544 Zhang Zhidong | 133 |
545 Voices from Hong Kong | 136 |
55 Conclusion | 138 |
Dynamism in the Early Twentieth Century | 140 |
13 This Book | 22 |
Languages Concepts and Pluralism | 26 |
21 Concepts | 27 |
212 Pushes toward Holism | 30 |
213 A Shared Practice | 33 |
214 Objectivity | 36 |
22 Conceptual Distances | 39 |
222 Words Matter | 41 |
23 Pluralism | 45 |
The Consequences of Pluralism | 49 |
31 Our Own Values | 51 |
32 Static Attitudes | 57 |
322 Repressing | 59 |
323 Accommodating | 61 |
33 Dynamic Engagement | 65 |
332 Substantive Engagement | 67 |
34 Multiple Strategies and Divided Communities | 70 |
The Shift toward Legitimate Desires in NeoConfucianism | 74 |
41 NeoConfucianism against Desire? | 75 |
42 Embracing Desires | 83 |
421 Huang Zongxi | 84 |
422 Chen Que | 86 |
423 Gu Yanwu | 89 |
424 Dai Zhen | 93 |
43 Conclusion | 98 |
NineteenthCentury Origins | 101 |
51 Translation of International Law | 104 |
512 Martins General Laws of the Myriad Nations | 107 |
52 The SelfStrengthening Movement | 111 |
53 Japan | 115 |
532 Confucians Liberals Radicals and Bureaucrats | 117 |
61 Liang and Jhering | 141 |
612 Jherings Struggle for Rights and Law | 143 |
613 Liang and Quanli | 150 |
614 Quanli and Law | 158 |
62 Liu Shipeis Concept of Quanli | 162 |
621 Personal Interests | 164 |
622 Legitimate Abilities | 167 |
623 Extension | 169 |
624 Quanli and Responsibility | 172 |
63 Conclusion | 175 |
Change Continuity and Convergence prior to 1949 | 178 |
71 Chen Duxiu | 181 |
72 Gao Yihan | 188 |
John Dewey | 194 |
74 Marxism and Leninism | 200 |
Engagement despite Distinctiveness | 205 |
81 Rights and Interests | 208 |
812 Chinese Interests | 214 |
813 Engagement | 221 |
82 Rights and Harmony | 225 |
821 Conflict versus Harmony in Western Theorizing | 226 |
822 Chinese Harmony | 229 |
823 Engaging Harmony | 234 |
83 Political versus Economic Rights | 239 |
831 Complex Reality | 240 |
832 Analysis and Engagement | 243 |
Conclusions | 250 |
Bibliography | 259 |
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