Xue Li

Ethics, Human Rights and Culture

Beyond Relativism and Universalism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-8548-4
• 2006
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 153mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781403985484
• ISBN-10: 1403985480
• Artikelnr.: 21296952

Autorenporträt

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 include Asian Values and the Universality of Human Rights, Human Rights: Priority Ranking, Conflicts and Trade-Offs, and A Critique of Rawl's Freestanding Justice.

Inhaltsangabe

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?