Relativism and Human Rights A Theory of Pluralistic Universalism /

• Main Author: Corradetti, Claudio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Law.; Ethics.; Political philosophy.; Linguistics.; Law > Philosophy.; Human rights.; Human Rights.; Political Philosophy.; Theoretical Linguistics.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

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 rec...

Table of Contents:

• I
• Cognitive Relativism and Experiential Rationality
• Beyond Moral Relativism and Objectivism
• II
• Human Rights and Pluralisitc Universalism
• The Legal Dimensions of Human Rights.