Xu Fu-guan on Human Rights and Democracy

Philosophy and Culture 34 (7):63-77 (2007)
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Abstract

Since ancient times, the remaining mass in the Confucian literature, not stored up a lot of significant questions of human rights topics and ideas. Human rights awareness in the stimulation of foreign ideas and progressive awakening, of course, over the past century many thinkers discussed in this respect, for example: first, Yin Hai, Zhang Weiquan, Mou, Hsu Fu-kuan ... ... etc., in which the position of the human rights discourse, Confucian Hsu Fu-kuan, can be particularly prominent and has its representative. He believes that the benevolent Confucian thought of the people and the contemporary concept of democracy and human rights can be compatible. In addition, he further pointed out that the interaction can not be entirely external to the phase relationship between the constraints of legal rights, should the reason for the inherent relationship between the virtues of mutual inductance, this has placed human rights basis, according to this argument and affirmed by the Confucian Xiuji Dorian's moral rights are human rights can be owned in the West to the law to provide for compliance with the draw at democracy. Finally, we view the human rights of his ideas on human rights under any current gains and losses for introspection. In all the surviving Confucian texts, many issues and thoughts on human rights haven't yet been manifested. The consciousness of human rights has bee gradually roused thanks to the stimulation of foreign thoughts. While the thinkers of the past century have made numerous statements on this topic, for instance, Yin Hai-guang, Zhang Wei-quan, Mo Zong-san, Xu Fu-guan, etc., Xu Fu-guan, among all the others, was unique and representative with his Confucian discourse on human rights , considering the Confucian ideas of benevolent and people-based rule is compatible with the idea of ​​human rights in modern democracy. Besides, he further pointed out that the interactions between individuals should not be solely conditioned by external laws and rights but also be infused with the virtue of rapport and sympathy, on which human rights are based. Thereby, he assured that the western democracy, based on legal human rights, could learn from the Confucian concept of moral human rights-"the gentleman cultivates himself and thereby brings peace and security to his fellow men. "And finally we examine the merits of Xu's ideas on human rights from the perspective of current thoughts

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