Confucianism and Human Rights - Softcover

De Bary, Wm. Theodore

 
9780231109376: Confucianism and Human Rights

Synopsis

In essays exploring the relationship of contemporary human rights doctrine to the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, this volume investigates concepts such as the individual in relation to the state; the notion of "rights" in ritual and law; and justice, constitutionalism, and intellectual freedom in Chinese and Western traditions.

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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.

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ISBN 10:  0231109369 ISBN 13:  9780231109369
Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1998
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