Human Rights and Chinese Thought : A Cross-Cultural Inquiry
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Modern China Series
ISBN-10
0521007526
ISBN-13
9780521007528
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 24th, 2002
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
480 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.30 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Regional studiesRegional / International studiesPhilosophyPhilosophy
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This book is about the development of Chinese ideas of human rights, and about what we in the contemporary world should make of different cultures having different moral ideas. It elaborates a plausible kind of moral pluralism and demonstrates that Chinese ideas of human rights do indeed have distinctive characteristics.
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.
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