Human Rights and Asian Values

Amartya Sen

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Abstract: The thesis that Asian values are less supportive of freedom and more concerned with order than discipline than are Western values and that the claims of human rights in the areas of political and civil liberties are therefore less relevant in Asia than West.

Keywords: human rights; West; Asia; Asian values; civil liberties; economic success; political rights; economic growth; freedom; democracy; tolerance; order; confucianism; Akbar; Moghuls (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-12
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