Is it possible, given culturally incongruent perspectives, to validate any common standards of behaviour? Is cultural relativity be a problem when cultures are porous? Can we implement human rights without incorporating the idea into the fabric of culture? This book addresses such questions with an inventive and original understanding of culture.
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Introduction PART I: LIVING WITH CULTURAL PARADOXES Paradoxes of Culture The Ethical Significance of Culture A Cultural Critique of Cultural Relativism PART II: TRANSCENDING DICHOTOMIES Destructive of Cultural Community? Intolerant of Cultural Pluralism? PART III: HUMAN RIGHTS: THE VIEW FROM ANYWHERE Cross-Cultural via the Inter-Subjective From Human Values to Inherent Rights From Practical Reasons to Extrinsic Rights An Unfair Utopia?关于作者
XIAORONG LI is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland, USA. Previously, she was a Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Centre (1992-93) and a member of the Institute of Advanced Study (1999-2000). Her publications includeAsian Values and the Universality of Human Rights,
Human Rights: Priority Ranking, Conflicts and Trade-Offs, and
A Critique of Rawl’s Freestanding Justice.
语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● 网页 274 ● ISBN 9780230511583 ● 文件大小 1.4 MB ● 出版者 Palgrave Macmillan UK ● 市 London ● 国家 GB ● 发布时间 2006 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2305903 ● 复制保护 社会DRM