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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Group 5 - 12.2, Surrendering autonomy and authority... necessarily undermines the viability of normative community objection There are various ways for a society to regulate their behavior, Democratic social life... trusts other human beings to engage in open and fair discussion of the issues involving mutual self-governance therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) Openness/democracy invites, in China, situations of conflict without habits of arbitrating or engaging in such conflict productively., Openness/democracy invites, in China, situations of conflict without habits of arbitrating or engaging in such conflict productively. therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) In China, democracy does not best serve human flourishing, Just going along on the grounds that “they are not bothering me” may preserve the stability of a situation supports Willingness to surrender autonomy and authority is not always an illegitimate or immoral choice, If the Universal Declarationis taken to be the basis of the functional appeal to rights, and the Universal Declarationmakes claims of the rights to democracy, then universal human rights entails democracy therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) Universal human rights entails democracy, If openness/democracy invites, in China, situations of conflict without habits of arbitrating or engaging in such conflict productively, then in China democracy does not best serve human flourishing. therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) In China, democracy does not best serve human flourishing, The Universal Declaration is taken to be the basis of the functional appeal to rights. therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) Universal human rights entails democracy, There may be good reasons to be suspicious of the claim that human flourishing is always best served by democracy therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) If there are good reasons to be suspicious of the claim that human flourishing is always best served by democracy and universal human rights entails democracy, then there may be good reason to be suspicious of the conception of universal human rights, Universal human rights entails democracy therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) If there are good reasons to be suspicious of the claim that human flourishing is always best served by democracy and universal human rights entails democracy, then there may be good reason to be suspicious of the conception of universal human rights, There may be good reasons to be suspicious of the claim that human flourishing is always best served by democracy therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) There may be good reason to be suspicious of the conception of universal rights, In China, democracy does not best serve human flourishing therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) There may be good reasons to be suspicious of the claim that human flourishing is always best served by democracy, If democratic social life trusts other humans to engage in open and fair discussion, and if in China children are taught to obey without question and are discouraged from any sort of questioning which might reveal or emphasize differences, then openness/democracy invites, in China, situations of conflict without habits of arbitrating or engaging in such conflict productively therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) Openness/democracy invites, in China, situations of conflict without habits of arbitrating or engaging in such conflict productively., Universal human rights entails democracy therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) There may be good reason to be suspicious of the conception of universal rights, In China, children are taught to obey without question and are discouraged from any sort of questioning which might reveal or emphasize differences therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) Openness/democracy invites, in China, situations of conflict without habits of arbitrating or engaging in such conflict productively., Many Chinese people are more afraid of disorder, of the failure of authority, of the possibility of unsettling a system which is navigable for the ordinary Chinese citizen, than they are of lacking rights supports If openness/democracy invites, in China, situations of conflict without habits of arbitrating or engaging in such conflict productively, then in China democracy does not best serve human flourishing., If, in China, democracy does not best serve human flourishing, then there may be good reasons to be suspicious of the claim that human flourishing is always best served by democracy therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) There may be good reasons to be suspicious of the claim that human flourishing is always best served by democracy, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights claims: "Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives." therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) Universal human rights entails democracy, Many Chinese are more afraid of open conflict associated with rights talk than they are afraid of their government supports If openness/democracy invites, in China, situations of conflict without habits of arbitrating or engaging in such conflict productively, then in China democracy does not best serve human flourishing., If there are various ways for a society to regulate their behavior, then there may be good reasons to be suspicious of the claim that human flourishing is always best served by democracy therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) There may be good reasons to be suspicious of the claim that human flourishing is always best served by democracy, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights claims: "the will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedure." therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) Universal human rights entails democracy