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  • 8 - Human Dignity and Relational Constitutionalism in Singapore

  • Edited by Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Book:
    Human Dignity in Asia
    Published online:
    26 July 2022
    Print publication:
    15 September 2022, pp 187-219

  • Summary

    Human dignity is a contested concept. While “dignity as autonomy” reflects universalist liberal egalitarianism, “dignity as status”refers to an aspect of social relationship within a hierarchically ordered society. While all citizens have inherent dignity, individuals occupying certain offices or attaining certain accomplishments may enjoy special dignity, in the form of privileges and immunities. This is evident in Singapore, where the government promotes relational constitutionalism, which seeks to secure rights while sustaining durable relationships and solidarity within an ethnically and religiously diverse polity. While dignity is not an explicit constitutional value, this chapter explores how it is apprehended as a public value. The government has endorsed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which affirms human dignity as foundational. It considers how human dignity has been invoked before and beyond the courts, examining how the concept and cognates like honor, integrity, benevolence and virtue shape each other. Particular attention is paid to how human dignity is shaped as manifest in laws regulating political defamation and the treatment of migrant workers.

  • The Effects of Confucian Values on Interpersonal Trust, Justice, and Information Sharing of Korean Workers: A Multilevel Analysis

  • Kyunghwan Yeo, Jessica L. Wildman, Suk Bong Choi
  • Journal:
    Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology / Volume 11 / 2017
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 November 2017, e11
    Print publication:
    2017
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  • This study examines the effect of supervisors’ Confucian values on interpersonal trust, interpersonal justice, and information sharing in the context of South Korean workers, using multilevel analysis. We also investigate the moderating roles of blood, regional, and school ties (BRST) among their relationships. A survey was conducted with 46 supervisors and 210 subordinates from South Korean manufacturing companies. Our empirical findings indicated that supervisors’ Confucian values were positively associated with the interpersonal trust, interpersonal justice, and information sharing of subordinates. Contrary to our expectation, the BRST had no significant moderating role in the relationship between supervisors’ Confucian values and interpersonal trust, interpersonal justice, and information sharing of subordinates. Our study contributes to organisational behaviour and psychology by highlighting the significance of societal values such as Confucian values in understanding an organisational member's attitude and behaviour in the East Asian region.

  • 52 - Picture books: from akahon to kibyōshi and gōkan

  • from Part IV - The Edo period (1600–1867)
  • Edited by Haruo Shirane, Columbia University, New York, Tomi Suzuki, Columbia University, New York, David Lurie, Columbia University, New York
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
    Published online:
    05 January 2016
    Print publication:
    17 December 2015, pp 510-522

  • Summary

    One of the most dramatic transformations in Japanese literary history was the transition from the medieval period to the early modern era, which gave birth to a whole new body of vernacular and Sinitic literature. Most of the high points of early modern literature, the Genroku era, the Horeki-Tenmei era, and the Bunka-Bunsei era, came before or after major Tokugawa shogunate reforms, when writers were relatively free and uncensored. Heian vernacular classics such as Hyakunin isshu, Kokinshu, The Tales of Ise, and The Tale of Genji became basic reading for educated women in the Edo period, but these works, particularly the longer ones, were generally read in digest form, often with pictures, The early modern period produced few women writers in the field of vernacular fiction. Confucian virtues of filial piety and loyalty afforded the bakufu a basis for reinforcing the rules of social hierarchy and the institutions of inheritance.