Relativism and Human Rights (eBook)

A Theory of Pluralistic Universalism

Claudio Corradetti (Autor)

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2009 | 2009
XVI, 170 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-1-4020-9986-1 (ISBN)

Infos

When he nished writing, he raised his eyes and looked at me. From that day I have thought about Doktor Pannwitz many times and in many ways. I have asked myself how he really functioned as a man; how he lled his time, outside of the Polymerization and the Indo- Germanic conscience; above all when I was once more a free man, I wanted to meet him again, not from a spirit of revenge, but merely from a personal curiosity about the human soul. Because that look was not one between two men; and if I had known how completely to explain the nature of that look, which came as if across the glass window of an aquarium between two beings who live in different worlds, I would also have explained the essence of the great insanity of the third Germany. PRIMO LEVI [If this is a man, pp. 111-112, in, If this is a man and The truce, trans. S. Woolf, Abacus, London, 1987] If all propositions, even the contingent ones, are resolved into identical propositions, are they not all necessary? My answer is: certainly not. For even if it is certain that what is more perfect is what will exist, the less perfect is nevertheless still possible. In propositions of fact, existence is involved. LEIBNIZ [Samtlic ¨ he schriften und briefe vol VI pt 4 Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1449A VI 4] We live in a rule-constrained world.

Inhalt

Contents 6
Introduction 8
Part I 16
Cognitive Relativism and Experiential Rationality 17
1.1 Beyond Cognitive and Linguistic Relativism 19
1.2 Epistemic Relativism Refuted 26
1.3 The Experiential Validity of the Cognitive System 33
Beyond Moral Relativism and Objectivism 48
2.1 Forms of Moral Relativism 49
2.2 The Two Horns of the Dilemma: Relativism versus Objectivism 60
2.3 Wong’s Mixed Position: the Idea of Pluralistic Relativism 72
2.4 Discursive Dialectic of Recognition: for a Post-Metaphysical Justification of the Domain of the Ethical Life 75
Part II 83
Human Rights and Pluralisitc Universalism 84
3.1 From Purposive Action to Communicative Action 86
3.2 The Priority of Recognition and the Formal System of Basic Liberties 101
3.3 The Exemplar Validity of Human Rights 110
3.4 Deliberative Constraints and Pluralistic Universalism 117
The Legal Dimensions of Human Rights 122
4.1 The Source and the Content Validity of Law 123
4.2 The Structure and Function of Human Rights 141
4.3 Transplantability and Legal Commensurability 148
4.4 What is Wrong in the Democratic Peace Theory? A Defence of International Legal Pluralism 154
Bibliography 164
Author Index 176
Subject Index 178

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2009
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 170 p.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: contingency • ethics • Experience • Human Rights • Kant • Law • Linguistics • Morality • Relativism
• ISBN-10: 1-4020-9986-X / 140209986X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-9986-1 / 9781402099861