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Title: | The justification of human rights and the question of its cross-cultural validity : universal theories and particular perspectives |
Authors: | Stamoulas, Aristotelis |
Keywords: | Human rights -- International cooperation Human rights -- Philosophy Cultural relativism Human rights -- Cross-cultural studies |
Issue Date: | 2004 |
Publisher: | University of Malta. Faculty of Laws |
Citation: | Stamoulas, A. (2004). The justification of human rights and the question of its cross-cultural validity : universal theories and particular perspectives. Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights, 8(1), 297-320. |
Abstract: | Efforts to justify Human Rights through an all-encompassing theory of cross-cultural validity have engrossed Western theorists. An exaggerated belief that all people think in a similar fashion and, thus, will affirm human rights as a project commonly agreed between liberal and non-liberal societies, has resulted in the absence of cultural differentiation. On one hand the East is called to surrender itself to a form of Western moral infiltration, and, on the other hand, the East raises arguments of state sovereignty and non-interference. A West-East confrontation on the ideological level of justification is sterile, for it perpetuates unnecessary philosophical tensions and unresolved problems related to Human Rights implementation. Instead of being trapped in a vain search for a liberal philosophical justification inspired by the West, it would be more desirable to pursue a cultural emancipation by locating the humanistic core of human rights in each and every society. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/123678 |
Appears in Collections: | Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights, volume 8, number 1 |
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