Handbook Political Theory.pdf

The political factors that focused attention on the ‘‘East Asian challenge’’ remain in place, however. East Asian economies have ...

Cultural factors can aVect theprioritizingof rights, and this matters when rights conXict and it must be decided which one to s ...

exceptional circumstances. 3 In political practice, it means that East Asian governments have an obligation to provide the socia ...

coherence and political appeal of human rights. For many East Asian intel- lectuals and social critics, it is important to engag ...

While such proposals for cross-cultural dialogue move the debate on universal human rights forward, they still face certain diYc ...

Aristotle objected to Plato’s argument on the grounds that abolishing the family, rather than ensuring impartial and equal conce ...

On the face of it, the relevance of Confucianism for contemporary Western theorizing about the family that largely takes for gra ...

they argue that there is an immense gap between the actually-existing family, the ‘‘school of despotism,’’ and the family as it ...

the aged of other families; treat your young in a way beWtting their tender age and extend this treatment to the young of other ...

Even political leaders, who have the explicit mandate of caring for the people (strangers), cannot forsake obligations to family ...

laws of succession in China were inXuenced by Confucian family values, and she develops a model of a law of succession with a Co ...

hidden social problems from contrasting theories and ways of life, thus allowing for moral and political progress. Most of my di ...

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Ho,L. 2003. Traditional Confucian values and Western legal frameworks: the law of succession. InConfucianism for the Modern Worl ...

Schwartz,B. 1985 .The World of Thought in Ancient China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Swift,A. 2001 .Political Ph ...

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‘‘American exceptionalism’’ is a highly adaptable narrative for commentators on the political culture of the United States. The ...

Angel himself. At the outset of the Revolution, there were many Americans prepared to align themselves with a holy cause; but as ...

possession of England and a representation of human life before the advent of money (Locke 1988 , 301 ). It gives us an idea of ...

like Beelzebub; in others, they were more directly tools of Divine chastise- ment. But in either case, they served as a mediatin ...