Confucianism and Human Rights

Revised
ISBN: 978-0-231-10937-6
Verlag: COLUMBIA UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Is the Confucian tradition compatible with the Western understanding of human rights? Are there fundamental human values, regardless of cultural differences, common to all peoples of all nations? At this critical point in Communist China's history, eighteen distinguished scholars address the role of Confucianism in dealing with questions of universal human rights.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bary, Wm Theodore de

Tu, Weiming

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Konfuzianismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Chinese Tradition in Antiquity
1. The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of the Late Shang DynastyDavid N. Keightley
2. Classical Sources of Chinese Tradition Burton Watson, by David S. Nivison, Irene Bloom
3. Confucius and the AnalectsIrene Bloom
4. Mozi: Utilitarianism, Uniformity, and Universal Love, by Burton Watson
5. The Way of Laozi and Zhuangzi
6. The Evolution of the Confucian Tradition in Antiquity
7. Legalists and Militarists
8. The Han Reaction to Qin Despotism
9. Daoist Syncretisms of the Late Zhou, by Qin, and Early Han
10. The Imperial Order and Han Syntheses
11. The Economic Order Burton Watson, by Wm. Theodore deBary
12. The Great Han Historians Burton Watson
3. Later Taoism and Mah?y?na Buddhism in China
13. Learning of the MysteriousRichard John Lynn, by Wing-tsit Chan, Irene Bloom
14. Daoist ReligionFranciscus Verellen, by Nathan Sivin, et al.
15. The Introduction of Buddhism
16. Schools of Buddhism
17. Schools of Buddhism
4. The Confucian Revival and Neo-Confucianism
18. Social Life and Political Culture in the Tang
19. The Confucian Revival in the Song
20. Neo-Confucianism: The Philosophy of Human Nature and the Way of the Sage
21. Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucian Program Wm. Theodore deBary
22. Ideological Foundations of Late Imperial China
23. Neo-Confucian Education
24. Continuity and Crisis in the Ming

Über Autor(innen)

Wm. Theodore de Bary is the author or editor of more than two dozen works on Asian civilizations, including Sources of Chinese Tradition and Sources of Japanese Tradition.

Tu Weiming is the editor of China in Transformation and author of Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today, and Way, Meaning and Politics: Essays on the Confucian Intellectual.