Asian values and human rights
Subtitle: a Confucian communitarian perspective
By: Wm. Theodore de Bary.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Human rights -- Asia.; Social values -- Asia.; Confucianism -- Asia.; Communitarianism -- Asia.
Description: "Asian values" is a concept advanced by some authoritarian regimes to differentiate an Asian model of development, supposedly based on Confucianism, from a Western model identified with individualism, liberal democracy, and human rights. Highlighting the philosophical development of Confucianism as well as the Chinese historical experience with community organization, constitutionalism, education, and women's rights, Wm.

Theodore de Bary argues that while the Confucian sense of personhood differs in some respects from Western libertarian concepts of the individual, it is not incompatible with human rights, but could, rather, enhance them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-187) and index.