Title: Asian values and human rights
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Human rights, Social values, Communitarianism, Confucianism, Human rights, asia
Places: Asia
LC classification: JC599.A78 D4 1998