ISBN:
9781402099861
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
1
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DDC:
323.01
Keywords:
Ethics
;
Law Philosophy
;
Philosophy (General)
;
Political science Philosophy
;
Menschenrecht
;
Philosophie
;
Ethik
;
Universalismus
Abstract:
This book advances a post-metaphysical model for testing the validity of human rights principles. It takes into account some of the most recent researches in the field of cognitive linguistics and ethics in order to ground a deliberative model based upon the Kantian reflective judgment. Even if specifically suited for academics and research scholars, it can profitably be adopted as a supplementary textbook in masters and doctoral programmes. As a unique contemporary contribution to the understanding of the conceptual status of human rights principles, this work represents an invaluable instrument also for the activities conducted at research centres and think-tanks. Indeed the abstract premises of the book are oriented to a more and more concrete underpinning of the contemporary human rights challenges as those faced by public officials involved in human rights project cooperation.
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Part I; 1 Cognitive Relativism and Experiential Rationality; 1.1 Beyond Cognitive and Linguistic Relativism; 1.2 Epistemic Relativism Refuted; 1.3 The Experiential Validity of the Cognitive System; 1.3.1 Judgement and Truth; 2 Beyond Moral Relativism and Objectivism; 2.1 Forms of Moral Relativism; 2.2 The Two Horns of the Dilemma: Relativism versus Objectivism; 2.2.1 Harman's Inner-Judgments Relativism; 2.2.2 The Limits of Nagel's Objectivism in Morality; 2.3 Wong's Mixed Position: the Idea of Pluralistic Relativism
Description / Table of Contents:
2.4 Discursive Dialectic of Recognition: for a Post-Metaphysical Justification of the Domain of the Ethical LifePart II; 3 Human Rights and Pluralisitc Universalism; 3.1 From Purposive Action to Communicative Action; 3.2 The Priority of Recognition and the Formal System of Basic Liberties; 3.3 The Exemplar Validity of Human Rights; 3.4 Deliberative Constraints and Pluralistic Universalism; 4 The Legal Dimensions of Human Rights; 4.1 The Source and the Content Validity of Law; 4.2 The Structure and Function of Human Rights; 4.3 Transplantability and Legal Commensurability
Description / Table of Contents:
4.4 What is Wrong in the Democratic Peace Theory? A Defence ofInternational Legal PluralismBibliography; Author Index; Subject Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4020-9986-1
URL:
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