Relativism and Human Rights
Subtitle: A Theory of Pluralistic Universalism
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Part I; title: 1 Cognitive Relativism and Experiential Rationality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3; title: 1.1 Beyond Cognitive and Linguistic Relativism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5; title: 1.2 Epistemic Relativism Refuted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12; title: 1.3 The Experiential Validity of the Cognitive System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19; title: 1.3.1 Judgement and Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28; title: 2 Beyond Moral Relativism and Objectivism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35; title: 2.1 Forms ofMoral Relativism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36; title: 2.2 The Two Horns of the Dilemma: Relativism versus Objectivism. . . . 47; title: 2.2.1 Harman’s Inner-Judgments Relativism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49; title: 2.2.2 The Limits of Nagel’s Objectivism in Morality . . . . . . . . . . . . 53; title: 2.3 Wong’s Mixed Position: the Idea of Pluralistic Relativism . . . . . . . . . 59; title: 2.4 Discursive Dialectic of Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62; title: Part II; title: 3 Human Rights and Pluralisitc Universalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73; title: 3.1 From Purposive Action to Communicative Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75; title: 3.2 The Priority of Recognition and the Formal System of Basic Liberties 90; title: 3.3 The Exemplar Validity of Human Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99; title: 3.4 Deliberative Constraints and Pluralistic Universalism. . . . . . . . . . . . . 106; title: 4 The Legal Dimensions of Human Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111; title: 4.1 The Source and the Content Validity of Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112; title: 4.2 The Structure and Function of Human Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130; title: 4.3 Transplantability and Legal Commensurability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137; title: 4.4 What is Wrong in the Democratic Peace Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143; title: Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153; title: Contents; title: Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165; title: Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167