How to Study Human Rights and Culture (...Without Becoming a Relativist)
Philosophy in the Contemporary World Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 1-6, Autumn-Winter 2004
7 Pages Posted: 13 May 2008
Abstract
Arguing for the existence of a non-trivial link between culture and human rights does not commit the author to relativism or a simplistic notion of culture.
Keywords: human rights, cultural relativism, essentialism, moral relativism
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Van Duffel, Siegfried, How to Study Human Rights and Culture (...Without Becoming a Relativist). Philosophy in the Contemporary World Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 1-6, Autumn-Winter 2004, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1132251
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