| Abstract: | In 1947, based on a questionnaire survey of luminaries from all over the world, the united Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organization(uNESCo) put together an expert commission to study the philosophical foundations of human rights.Lo Chung-shu(Luo Zhongshu), a Chinese scholar who was part of the commission, contributed an article titled "Human Rights in the Chinese Tradition" to the program.He introduced traditional Chinese human rights concepts and proposed that every person in the world enjoys the rights to subsistence(the right to live), self-expression and happiness(the right to enjoyment).Lo's exposition of the basic principles underlying human rights and the specific human rights he proposed were eventually embraced by the universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international treatises on human rights, a testament to his foresight and vision . |
