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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... person (Article 3) - recognition everywhere as a person before the law (Article 6) - freedom of movement...to leave any country, including his own (Article 13) - a nationality (Article 15) - freedom of thought, conscience and religion ...
... person (Article 3) - recognition everywhere as a person before the law (Article 6) - freedom of movement...to leave any country, including his own (Article 13) - a nationality (Article 15) - freedom of thought, conscience and religion ...
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... persons serving in their individual capacity to government representatives, because such persons would have been relatively free to investigate alleged human-rights abuses in an independent manner. As the human-rights institutions have ...
... persons serving in their individual capacity to government representatives, because such persons would have been relatively free to investigate alleged human-rights abuses in an independent manner. As the human-rights institutions have ...
Pagina 41
... person with the duties of another and vice versa, is flawed. If, as will be argued, rights and duties are always correlative, then duty-based moral systems could accommodate human rights, the assertions of some commentators ...
... person with the duties of another and vice versa, is flawed. If, as will be argued, rights and duties are always correlative, then duty-based moral systems could accommodate human rights, the assertions of some commentators ...
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... person or persons” (1976a, p. 100). He rejects the duty definition as well: “What is common to all rights is not some duty or duty relationship but an entitlement” (1976a, p. 104). Whereas the previous characterizations attempt to ...
... person or persons” (1976a, p. 100). He rejects the duty definition as well: “What is common to all rights is not some duty or duty relationship but an entitlement” (1976a, p. 104). Whereas the previous characterizations attempt to ...
Pagina 1973
... persons do not recognize duties of charity, for example, perhaps because such duties give rise to something resembling economic rights. The reluctance of theorists to acknowledge the existence of rights corresponding to duties held by ...
... persons do not recognize duties of charity, for example, perhaps because such duties give rise to something resembling economic rights. The reluctance of theorists to acknowledge the existence of rights corresponding to duties held by ...
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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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