Human Rights and Asian Values
Sixteenth Annual Morgenthau Memorial Lecture on Ethics and Foreign Policy
Amartya Sen

May 25, 1997

Amartya Sen

Human Rights and Asian Values

Nobel Prize-winning philosopher Amartya Sen argues that human rights are neither a uniquely Western phenomenon nor a hindrance to economic development, the charges usually leveled against those who seek to implement human rights in Asia. He points to intellectual strands within Asian thought that value human rights.

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