ASIAN OR HUMAN VALUES: A NEVER-ENDING DISPUTE
Journal Title: European Journal of Business and Social Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 8
Abstract
The debate as regards the universality of Human Rights is continuing in the dialogue between the East and the West and has scratched, somehow, the merit of relations between the world chief civilizations and their leaders. There are two schools of thought about this: those who cling to the positivist view of international law anticipate a ‘globalized’ dimension for the attributes of human dignity and those who foresee signs and reasons of distinction either by a culturalbiased world vision or by a communitarian view that puts the collective above the individual and his demands of self-reliability and autonomy. In this article the author follows a liberal assessment of the question and seeks to explain why Asian nations by adhering to the international covenants that depart from the United Nations Charter had lent their hand to construct, by themselves, a concurrent idiosyncrasy of rights and of the relationship between the State and the individual. The article looks in detail at the humanist tradition of Kantian-led Human Rights and to the collective-inspired Asian values and concludes that the disregard for that universality is basically biased and serves national and authoritarian purposes. Looking at the biggest power in Asia, China has given ammunition to this quarrel, raising the argument of interference whenever it is pressed by the U.S. or the E.U. about its low observance of the international standards in the area of Human Rights, but this isolated stand enters into contradiction with its long-esteemed ambitions to become a regional leader and to the sectorial dialogues China maintains with the E.U. and several of its member states.
Authors and Affiliations
Arnaldo M. A. Goncalves| Assistant Professor in the Master of Public Administration, Macau Polytechnic Institute, Macau, Email: arnaldogonc53@gmail.com
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