Human Rights and Asian Values
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https://doi.org/10.30827/acfs.v50i0.5175Keywords:
human rights, personal freedom, political liberty, tolerance, Asian valuesAbstract
The author discusses the ways in which two normative concepts, individual freedom and political liberty, are different and complementary. From this starting point he tries to show the similarities rather than the discrepancies between Asian and Western cultural traditions with the aim of fostering mutual understanding. Thus, he does not point to the disagreements said to exist between them, specially the Asian defense of order and the state in contrast to pluralism and human rights, so valued by the western enlightenment. On the contrary, he emphasizes that in the Asian tradition, so rich, varied and complex, there can also be discerned the existence of a line of defense of individual freedom that, although it cannot be confused with political liberty, nevertheless advances the possibility of its realization.
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