Human Rights in Chinese Thought - A Cross-Cultural Inquiry

Klappentext This book is about the history of Chinese ideas of human rights. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Languages, concepts, and pluralism; 3. The consequences of pluralism; 4. The shift toward legitimate desires in neo-Confucianism; 5. Nineteenth century origins; 6. Dynamism in the early twentieth century; 7. Change, continuity, and convergence prior to 1949; 8. Engagement despite distinctiveness; 9. Conclusions.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stephen Angle, Stephen C. Angle
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 24.06.2002
• EAN: 9780521007528
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00752-8
• Seiten: 304
• Serie: Cambridge Modern China (Paperb
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung