人权的话题,严格追究起来只有两三百年的历史。如果以美国独立战争和法国大革命时期发布的相关声明为准,那么其即使是在西方,也属于近现代式的话题。围绕这个话题的言说,如移置于中国的语境中,特别是与具有漫长传统的儒家相比,本有一种强烈的时空上的不对位感。但抛开政治、法律、意识形态方面的种种问题,并不令人意外的是,上述对比及其可能的意义,在关怀中国当代命运,并同时不完全拒斥儒家思想的学者 The topic of human rights is strictly investigated only for two or three centuries of history. If the declaration of the United States during the War of Independence and the French Revolution prevailed, then even in the West, it belonged to the topic of modernity. The discourse around this topic has a strong sense of inseparability in time and space, especially when compared to Confucianism, which has a long tradition. However, it is not surprising that the political, legal and ideological issues should be put aside. In contrast, the above contrast and its possible significance lie in the scholars who care about the fate of contemporary China and at the same time do not completely reject Confucianism