Human Rights in Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry

Voorkant
Cambridge 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.
 

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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
Glossary and Index
275
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