Asiatiska värderingar : mänskliga rättigheter i Japan och Kina
(2010) MRSG20 20101Human Rights Studies
Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
- Abstract
- The march forward for human rights and the spread of it throughout the world has been subjected to arguments by Asian governments that human rights and the values it promotes goes contrary to Asian values, and the Confucian society. This essay explores the roots of the Asian values argument and these Asian values and tries to see the reasoning and the structure of what lies behind the argument about them. It presents a comparative analysis of Japan and China, seeing both the implementation of human rights and the effect of the supposed particular Asian values in the respective country. What differences are there, what similarities are there, and what other reasons could there be for the perception of these set of values as very particular... (More)
- The march forward for human rights and the spread of it throughout the world has been subjected to arguments by Asian governments that human rights and the values it promotes goes contrary to Asian values, and the Confucian society. This essay explores the roots of the Asian values argument and these Asian values and tries to see the reasoning and the structure of what lies behind the argument about them. It presents a comparative analysis of Japan and China, seeing both the implementation of human rights and the effect of the supposed particular Asian values in the respective country. What differences are there, what similarities are there, and what other reasons could there be for the perception of these set of values as very particular to Asia, and incompatible with human rights. The abstract frame of this essay is the thought by John Rawls of the necessity of an acceptance for differing perceptions of an overlying legal framework to give it legitimacy. (Less)
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- author
- Persson, Andre LU
- supervisor
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- Ann Kull LU
- organization
- course
- MRSG20 20101
- year
- 2010
- type
- L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
- subject
- keywords
- Human rights, Japan, China, cultural relativism, Confucius, asian values, Kina, mänskliga rättigheter, kulturrelativism
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1608617
- date added to LUP
- 2010-06-16 09:48:28
- date last changed
- 2014-09-04 08:27:47
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