Asia, Enforceable Benevolence and the Future of Human Rights

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2322342
AutoresAnthony Woodiwi, Anthony Woodiwiss (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen46
Número5
Páginas966-981
Fecha de publicación2012-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038038512451531
OpenAlexW2085123820
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas19

What happens to human rights discourse in Asia will be of critical importance to the future of the whole human rights project. There are at least three possible scenarios: acceptance, rejection and transformation. Majority western opinion hopes for the first but expects the second. This article argues for the third, transformation. Central to the argument is the construction of an ideal type - enforceable benevolence - of a distinctively Asian human rights regime. Although this ideal type has been constructed on the basis of a consideration of Asian thought and practice, it has yet to be fully realized anywhere. In the meantime it represents a sociologically appropriate standard against which to judge the progress or not of Asian societies towards the realization of what I argue is their own vision of human dignity

Argument (complex analysis) · Dignity · Environmental ethics · Human rights · Ideal (ethics) · Law and economics · Political science · Realization (probability) · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Philosophy