Human Dignity in Asia

Dialogue between Law and Culture

Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781108835749
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108888707
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Human Rights
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Using interdisciplinary methods, this book is a pioneering exploration of Asian understandings of human dignity and human rights. It encompasses rigorous scrutiny of dignity jurisprudence in major Asian apex courts, detailed philosophical analysis of dignity in religious traditions, and contextualized socio-political analysis of religious dignity discourse in several Asian societies. This is an innovative systematic survey of how human dignity is understood in Asia, demonstrating how those understandings converge and diverge with other parts of the world. Synthesising legal, philosophical, and sociological expertise, this volume furthers the dialogue between Asia and the West, and advances debates on whether human rights are universal or particular to any one region. As many of the world's liberal democracies are challenged by polarization and populism, this comparative study of human dignity broadens our horizons and offers a potential alternative to a rigidified social imagination.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Notes on Editor and Contributors
• Preface
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Cultural Change in Asia
• 1 Human Dignity in Indian Constitutional Adjudication
• 2 The Development of Individual Dignity in Japan: Overcoming Constraints in Law, Family, and Society
• 3 Constitutional Discourse on Human Dignity in South Korea: A Critical Appraisal
• 4 Human Dignity in the Jurisprudence of the Taiwan Constitutional Court
• 5 The Human Dignity Factor: Interpreting the Philippine Constitution
• 6 Human Dignity in the Jurisprudence of the Indonesian Constitutional Court
• 7 Dignity as a Constitutional Value in Hong Kong: Toward a Contextual Approach?
• 8 Human Dignity and Relational Constitutionalism in Singapore
• 9 Personal Dignity under Chinese: Constitutional Law
• 10 Virtue, Dignity, and Constitutional Democracy: A Confucian Perspective
• 11 Buddhist Philosophical Approaches to Human Dignity
• 12 Dignity and Status in Ancient and Medieval India
• 13 Human Dignity, Pancasila, and Islam: Contexts and Contestations in Indonesia
• 14 Catholicism and Human Dignity in the Philippines
• 15 Protestantism and Human Dignity in South Korea
• Index