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- Title
A Human Rights Debate on Physical Security, Political Liberty, and the Confucian Tradition.
- Authors
Chan, Benedict
- Abstract
There are many East and West debates on human rights. One of them is whether all civil and political rights are human rights. On one hand, scholars generally agree that rights to physical security are human rights. On the other hand, some scholars argue that rights to political liberty are only Western rights but not human rights because political liberty conflicts with some East Asian cultural factors, especially the Confucian tradition. I argue that physical security also conflicts with some parts of the Confucian tradition, but rights to physical security are still human rights because physical security is a minimal value. I then argue that political liberty, similar to physical security, is also a minimal value. Therefore, similar to rights to physical security, rights to political liberty are also human rights, even though political liberty also conflicts with some parts of the Confucian tradition.
- Subjects
CIVIL rights; POLITICAL rights; HUMAN rights -- Philosophy; CONFUCIANISM; LIBERTY; DEBATE
- Publication
Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 2014, Vol 13, Issue 4, p567
- ISSN
1540-3009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11712-014-9403-0