Robert Weatherley
List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert Weatherley is involved.
Articles
2007 Challenging the State Orthodoxy: Liberal Conceptions of Human Rights in Late Qing and Post-Mao China Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 17:2, pp. 331–352 | Article
This article examines the analogous views of liberal Chinese rights scholars during the late Qing and post-Mao eras. The author identifies thinkers from both periods who have argued fervently in favour of a rights (rather than duties) based society in which human rights are the birth right of all… read more
2002 Harmony, hierarchy and duty based morality: The Confucian antipathy towards rights Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 12:2, pp. 245–267 | Article
This article examines and rejects the perspective that Confucianism was compatible with a notion of rights. In contrast to the established doctrine of human rights which conceives human beings as moral equals, Confucianism was grounded in a philosophy and practice of moral inequality which… read more