According to Tang Mei-ying, a professor of primary education at Taipei Municipal Teachers College, Confucian thought does include emphasis on human rights, such as the expectation that fathers should be "compassionate," sons "filially pious," a monarch "benevolent" and his ministers "loyal."
市立師範學院初等教育系教授湯梅英指出，儒家思想中也有講求人權的部分，像父慈、子孝、君仁、臣忠，各有各的角色，但碰到父不父、君不君時，卻拿不出抗衡之策。