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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... upon ranking of priorities with respect to basic human needs. It is by no means clear that there is universal assent to the ordering of human needs as is evidenced, for example, by the relative support of the two Covenants Introduction.
... upon ranking of priorities with respect to basic human needs. It is by no means clear that there is universal assent to the ordering of human needs as is evidenced, for example, by the relative support of the two Covenants Introduction.
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... means that looking for the literal existence of human rights will not be fruitful. Even if non—Western societies do not express moral concerns in a framework of human rights, they may nonetheless address them in some other conceptual ...
... means that looking for the literal existence of human rights will not be fruitful. Even if non—Western societies do not express moral concerns in a framework of human rights, they may nonetheless address them in some other conceptual ...
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... mean that human rights cannot be universal. But even if all social systems contain rights, this guarantees neither that they share the same rights, nor that they ascribe comparable importance to them. Nevertheless, virtually all ...
... mean that human rights cannot be universal. But even if all social systems contain rights, this guarantees neither that they share the same rights, nor that they ascribe comparable importance to them. Nevertheless, virtually all ...
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... mean that they may not share some in common. So, by rendering the theory more coherent and by giving it a more generous and, I believe, fair interpretation, I show that some human rights may be compatible with relativism. Relativism is ...
... mean that they may not share some in common. So, by rendering the theory more coherent and by giving it a more generous and, I believe, fair interpretation, I show that some human rights may be compatible with relativism. Relativism is ...
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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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