On Confucious Human Rights Discourse

As to the contents of Confucian discourse of human rights there are four topics which are being or not-being, history, relationship and constructivism on Confucian-human right. According to the different criteria of being or not being on Confucian-human right there are three points: not being in ancient times, being in ancient times, not being originally and being later. There are three points too on relationship of Confucian-human right: exclusion, integration and conversion. what is sometimes overlooked on the history of Confucian-human right is eastern studies introduced to the west. The traditional Chinese thoughts had an important effect on western human right idea and normative text. Du Gangjian, a well-known expert on Chaoshan new Confucianism in construction of Confucian-human right, constructs a theory system of Confucian human rights by Confucius’ ideas. Taken together, Confucian discourse of human rights is at the cross-section when China mingled with the western countries and the modern replaced the ancient. The commensurability of human rights is just made at this point.