Harry Hsiao, a professor of Pacific and Asian studies at the University of Victoria in Canada and editor of Confucian Thought and Democratic Human Rights by the renowned Confucian scholar Hsu Fu-kuan, notes that there are four different schools of thought about the relationship between Confucianism and democratic human rights.
主編此書的加拿大維多利亞大學遠東研究中心教授蕭欣義在編序中指出，時下對於儒家思想與民主自由人權的關係，大致可以分為四派看法：