International Human Rights: Universalism Versus RelativismQuid Pro Books, 2013 International Human Rights is a classic socio-legal study of the incompatibility and possible reconciliation of competing views of culture relativism and absolute fundamental human rights. It features prodigious research and insight that is much cited by academics and human rights lawyers and activists over two decades. Quality ebook edition features active Contents, linked notes, and proper presentation of text and charts. Are human rights universal? Universalists and cultural relativists have long been debating this question. In INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS, Alison Dundes Renteln reconciles the two positions and argues that, within the vast array of cultural practices and values, it is possible to create structural equivalents to rights in all societies. She poses that empirical cross-cultural research can reveal universal human rights standards, then demonstrates it through an analysis of the concept of measured retribution. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS provides an unusual combination of abstract theory and empirical evidence. It will interest scholars and students in political science, sociology, anthropology, peace studies, cross-cultural research, and philosophy, as well as human rights activists. |
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... follows} I would like to acknowledge Dr. Jennifer Montague of the Warburg Institute at the University of London who helped me choose the photograph used for the cover of this book and Dr. Christian Theuerkauff of the Staatliche Museen ...
... follows} I would like to acknowledge Dr. Jennifer Montague of the Warburg Institute at the University of London who helped me choose the photograph used for the cover of this book and Dr. Christian Theuerkauff of the Staatliche Museen ...
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... follows its own moral precepts, which it perceives to be the best. Thus, enculturation rather than tolerance proves to be the essential contribution of the theory (for an explanation of enculturation, see Herskovits, 1964, p. 326 ...
... follows its own moral precepts, which it perceives to be the best. Thus, enculturation rather than tolerance proves to be the essential contribution of the theory (for an explanation of enculturation, see Herskovits, 1964, p. 326 ...
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... follows some act that contravenes norms accepted by the people. Thus, government officials who inflict inappropriate penalties violate a universal standard and, by definition, their own indigenous normative standard as well. Some will ...
... follows some act that contravenes norms accepted by the people. Thus, government officials who inflict inappropriate penalties violate a universal standard and, by definition, their own indigenous normative standard as well. Some will ...
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... follow a higher, unwritten law which supersedes positive (manmade) law. There have been frequent attempts to see the adumbration of human—rights notions in early natural law theory. As this chapter focuses on the evolution of human ...
... follow a higher, unwritten law which supersedes positive (manmade) law. There have been frequent attempts to see the adumbration of human—rights notions in early natural law theory. As this chapter focuses on the evolution of human ...
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... follow the adoption of the UDHR, which would transform the Declaration provisions into enforceable norms through the ordinary ratification process. Nevertheless, some countries anticipated legal consequences and therefore abstained from ...
... follow the adoption of the UDHR, which would transform the Declaration provisions into enforceable norms through the ordinary ratification process. Nevertheless, some countries anticipated legal consequences and therefore abstained from ...
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International Human Rights: Universalism Versus Relativism Alison Dundes Renteln Vizualizare fragmente - 1990 |
International Human Rights: Universalism Versus Relativism Alison Dundes Renteln Vizualizare fragmente - 1990 |
International Human Rights: Universalism Versus Relativism Alison Dundes Renteln Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2013 |
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