How to Study Human Rights and Culture (...Without Becoming a Relativist)
Siegfried Van Duffel
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Philosophy in the Contemporary World Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 1-6, Autumn-Winter 2004
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.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 7
Keywords: human rights, cultural relativism, essentialism, moral relativism
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Suggested Citation
Van Duffel, Siegfried, How to Study Human Rights and Culture (...Without Becoming a Relativist). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1132251
