Human Rights and East Asian Philosophy

Benedict S. B. Chan is an associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the director of the Centre for Applied Ethics, and an associate professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is a co-editor of the books Social and Ethical Considerations of AI in East Asia and Beyond (2025), Warfare Ethics in Comparative Perspective: China and the West (2024), Building Chinese Bioethics: Exploring the Prevailing Technologies [In Chinese] (2024), and Whole Person Education in East Asian Universities: Perspectives from Philosophy and Beyond (2022).Baldwin Wong is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy and a research fellow in the Centre for Applied Ethics at Hong Kong Baptist University. His academic interests lie mainly in public justification and Confucianism. His works have been published in American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Economics & Philosophy, etc.

• Introduction for Human Rights and East Asian Philosophy: Traditional and Recent Approaches Section 1: Human Rights and Confucian Perspectives 1. Reconciling International Legal Human Rights and Confucianism: A Consequential Evaluation to Political Participation and Privacy 2. Confucian Strong Harmony and Human Rights 3. Confucian Conception of Human Rights 4. Confucianism on Liberty, Political Participation and the Foundation of Human Rights: the Hong Kong Perspective from Ho Kai and Hu Liyuan 5. Epistemic Rights: A Confucian Perspective 6. Epistemic Rights as Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Confucian Perspective Section 2: Human Rights: From the Buddhist and Daoist Perspectives 7. Buddhism and Human Rights: A Critical Survey 8. Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self and Human Rights: Compatible or Incompatible? 9. Group Identity and Group Right: A Reflection Through a Buddhist Lens 10. Zhuangzi, Freedom, and the Ability to Change Perspectives: A Daoist View of the Right to Education 11. A Daoist and Confucian Approach to the Environmental Right of Future Generations