Confucianism and Human Rights
Published on 15. January 1998
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-0-231-10936-9 (ISBN)
Description
In essays exploring the relationship of contemporary human rights doctrine to the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, this volume explores concepts of the individual in relation to community, state, and society. The essays also consider: the notion of "rights" in Confucian ritual and in Chinese law; social justice and religious and intellectual fredom in Chinese and Western traditions; and constitutionalism and the rule of law in China and the West.
Reviews / Votes
"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 liberal individualistic Western tradition, not the unique genetic child of Jews or Christians or Greeks." -- Edward Friedman, Asian Thought and Society "It reduces the lack of clarity that has characterized discussions of this subject to date." -- Lynn Struve, China Quarterly "The essays explore such vital subjects as the normative foundation of human rights claims, the relationship of the individual to the nation-state, rites as rights, due process, harmony versus freedom of thought, constitutionalism, and the rule of law... each one does stand on its own as a solid piece of scholarship." -- Choice "This engaging book is propaedeutic to a study of how Confucianism might contribute to decisions respecting rights." -- Dale Maurice Riepe, International Studies in PhilosophyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 162 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-10936-9 (9780231109369)
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Wm. Theodore De Bary | Weiming Tu
Confucianism and Human Rights
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05/1999
Columbia University Press
€43.40
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Persons
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.
Content
1. The Chinese Tradition in Antiquity 1. The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of the Late Shang DynastyDavid N. Keightley 2. Classical Sources of Chinese Tradition Burton Watson, by David S. Nivison, Irene Bloom 3. Confucius and the AnalectsIrene Bloom 4. Mozi: Utilitarianism, Uniformity, and Universal Love, by Burton Watson 5. The Way of Laozi and Zhuangzi 6. The Evolution of the Confucian Tradition in Antiquity 7. Legalists and Militarists 8. The Han Reaction to Qin Despotism 9. Daoist Syncretisms of the Late Zhou, by Qin, and Early Han 10. The Imperial Order and Han Syntheses 11. The Economic Order Burton Watson, by Wm. Theodore deBary 12. The Great Han Historians Burton Watson 3. Later Taoism and Mah y na Buddhism in China 13. Learning of the MysteriousRichard John Lynn, by Wing-tsit Chan, Irene Bloom 14. Daoist ReligionFranciscus Verellen, by Nathan Sivin, et al. 15. The Introduction of Buddhism 16. Schools of Buddhism 17. Schools of Buddhism 4. The Confucian Revival and Neo-Confucianism 18. Social Life and Political Culture in the Tang 19. The Confucian Revival in the Song 20. Neo-Confucianism: The Philosophy of Human Nature and the Way of the Sage 21. Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucian Program Wm. Theodore deBary 22. Ideological Foundations of Late Imperial China 23. Neo-Confucian Education 24. Continuity and Crisis in the Ming