Hannah Arendt's Influence Of Human Rights In Confucianism

The pearl diver, the Hannah Arendt's poetic metaphor for whom thinks of dealing with the tradition,

“descends to the bottom of the sea, not to excavate the bottom and bring it to light but to pry loose the rich and the strange, the pearls and the coral in the depths, and carry them to the surface.”1

Through the process of diving come up with the stream of the time, the loss of traditional values that might have been discerned in the past has been brought to light of the modern. Likewise, the one who explores the human rights sources within Confucianism deals with the current dilemma over making sense of human rights lies in the improvement of human rights understanding within cultures without merely transplanting concepts from outside, and

Lei Chen also cited Huang Zhong Xi's wording, that firstly appeared in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), to justify his political perspective and promoted democratic politics in Chiang Kai-Shek's ruling period5 Hence, an investigation of a political culture and thought in the East Asia cannot take place without considering

The authoritarian regimes gas been causing obstacles to impede international jurisprudence of human rights. First of all, in the aftermath of the 1990s' Asian Values claim, which mentioned filial piety and loyalty as a core idea formed by Confucian tradition. The Confucian traditional values in the claim seem impede to think of human rights. Then, the advocate of collective wellbeing followed a harmonious society, which is originally seen as the ultimate goal in Confucianism, had been used to defend the authoritarian regime from the international intervention. A harmonious society had been demonstrated as an orientation to maintain a social values of a political stability by the CCP 4th leaders, Hu Jintao.10 Hence, owing to the transformation of Confucian thinking as a political use, and human rights abuses, reported by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, the question whether there are human rights perspectives within Confucianism becomes a heated