TY  - BOOK
AU  - Angle,Stephen C.
TI  - Human rights and Chinese thought : a cross-cultural inquiry: a cross-cultural inquiry 
T2  - Cambridge modern China series
SN  - 0521007526 
AV  - JC599 A54 
U1  - 323/.0951 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Human rights
KW  - China
KW  - Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
KW  - Chine
KW  - swd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-274) and index; Introduction -- Languages, concepts, and pluralism -- The consequences of pluralism -- The shift toward legitimate desires in neo-Confucianism -- Nineteenth-century origins -- Dynamism in the early twentieth century -- Change, continuity, and convergence prior to 1949 -- Engagement despite distinctiveness -- Conclusions
N2  - 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.--Publisher description
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