W10 Human Rights and Asian Values /SooBin Moon

Human Rights and Asian Values

 
Summary)
     There are various voices about human rights in Asia. Some Asian governments use Asian rhetoric to boost their own value, while Asian human rights activists claim human rights with a freer and more democratic nature than information, and governments talk about human rights by giving political motivation. Human rights should also consider the cultural context. Thus, there may be differences in the context of human rights in the West and Asia. However, Asia should only consider traditions that fit universal human rights rights that are suitable for modern rights, even considering traditional culture. Focusing only on traditional culture can miss the ultimate concept of human rights. For example, it is difficult to reasonably harmonize classical Confucian and modern rights cultures. Confucianism is a concept that does not consider democracy. The Quran of Islam also does not match the universal concept of human rights. This is because the Koran is legally undermining the rights of Muslim women.
 

 
What's interesting, what's new?)
     It was new to me that Asia could have human rights of a different nature from Europe. And it was interesting that there was a conflict between Asian traditional values and modern universal human rights concepts. The specific examples were very interesting, and it was surprising that Confucianism rejected democracy, the Middle Gibbs, the sovereignty of popularism, etc. It was interesting to say that Confucianism questioned the importance of the right as a means of ordering society compared to other virtue-oriented approaches.
 

 
The part I want to discuss with others)


     Modern universal human rights and traditional ideas have many conflicts. Therefore, Onelli argues that tradition should be abandoned because it is difficult to reconcile the two and it may be impossible to rebuild new ideas that combine them. Do you think you can transform traditional ideas in line with universal human rights to create a new concept of human rights of the country alone or more broadly in Asia?

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