Relativism and human rights
Subtitle: a theory of pluralistic universalism
By: Claudio Corradetti
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Dordrecht]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781402099854
Subjects: Human rights; Ethical relativism
Description: Can human rights principles admit degrees of contextual variations? Are our cultures condemned to a formally rigid standard of universalist hegemony? This work provides an innovative contribution to the legal-philosophical understanding of human rights theory. While advancing a post-metaphysical reconstruction for the notion of human rights, it defends an original perspective on the relation between universal validity and cultural pluralism. By rejecting the challenges of relativism and classical abstract universalism, this model reinterprets discursive theory in the light of dialectical recognition and judgmental exemplarity. The result is an enriched substantive notion of universalism oriented to the safeguard of situated authenticity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-164) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Cognitive relativism and experiential rationality; title: Beyond moral relativism and objectivism; title: Human rights and pluralistic universalism; title: The legal dimensions of human rights.