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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      14 August 2009
      24 June 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511499227
      9780521809719
      9780521007528
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511499227
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.604kg, 304 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 304 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Modern China Series
      Subjects:
      East Asian History, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
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    Series:
    Cambridge Modern China Series
    Subjects:
    East Asian History, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
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    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.

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    ‘… displays the author’s mastery of the Chinese corpus and methodological care …’.

    Source: Political Studies Review

    ‘… groundbreaking … Angle’s book is a particularly significant contribution in that he is really one of the first to take contemporary Chinese thinkers seriously … Anyone who thought that nothing new can e said about the ‘human rights versus Asian values’ debate should be convinced by Angle’s book that the opposite is true.’

    Source: The Philosophical Quarterly

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