Abstract
This Note offers an alternative perspective on international human rights that seeks to bypass the dead-end universalist-cultural relativist debate, and proposes a concept of human rights that is harmonious with the modern collectivist and socialist Chinese order. Since human rights protect dignity, this study finds the source of human dignity in China in society, not in nature. This analysis opens the door to the development of a meaningful set of guaranteed individual rights for a socialist state and a Confucian order.
Recommended Citation
David E. Christensen,
Breaking the Deadlock: Toward a Socialist-Confucianist Concept of Human Rights for China,
13
Mich. J. Int'l L.
469
(1992).
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