ISBN:
9789402421309
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(XX, 289 p. 7 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
Edition:
2nd ed. 2022.
Parallel Title:
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Keywords:
Political philosophy.
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Human rights.
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Ethics.
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Linguistics.
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Law—Philosophy.
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Law.
Abstract:
Preface second edition -- Introduction second edition -- 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 -- 2.4 Discursive Dialectic of Recognition -- Part II -- 3 Human Rights and Pluralisitc Universalism -- 3.1 From Purposive Action to Communicative Action -- 3.1.1 Discursive dialectics and the processes of subjectivization -- 3.2 The Priority of Recognition and the Formal System of Basic Liberties -- 3.3 Human Dignity as an orienting principle of the universal system of human rights -- 3.3.1 Human Dignity as a Juridical Principle -- 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 -- 4.4 What is Wrong in the Democratic Peace Theory -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of topics.
Abstract:
This is an innovative contribution to the philosophy of human rights. Considering both legal and philosophical scholarship, the views here bear an importance on the legitimacy of international politics and international law. As a result of more than 10 years of research, this revised edition engages with current debates through the help of new sections. Pluralistic universalism considers that, while formal filtering criteria constitute unavoidable requirements for the production of potentially valid arguments, the exemplarity of judgmental activity, in its turn, provides a pluralistic and retrospective reinterpretation for the fixity of such criteria. While speech formal standards grounds the thinnest possible presuppositions we can make as humans, the discursive exemplarity of judgments defends a notion of validity which is both contextually dependent and "subjectively universal". According to this approach, human rights principles are embedded within our linguistic argumentative practice. It is precisely from the intersubjective and dialogical relation among speakers that we come to reflect upon those same conditions of validity of our arguments. Once translated into national and regional constitutional norms, the discursive validity of exemplar judgments postulates the philosophical necessity for an ideal of legal-constitutional pluralism, challenging all those attempts trying to frustrate both horizontal (state to state) and vertical (supra-national-state-social) on-going debates on human rights. On the first edition of this book: “Claudio Corradetti’s book is a thoughtful attempt to find an adequate theoretical foundation for human rights. Its approach is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing on issues in analytical philosophy as well as contemporary political theorists, and the result is a densely argued text aimed at scholars … .” (Andrew Lambert, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Vol. 14 (3), January, 2010).
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-024-2130-9
