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Relativism and Human Rights A Theory of Pluralist Universalism
This is an innovative contribution to the philosophy of human rights. Considering both legal and philosophical scholarship, the views here bear an...
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Critical Realism, Human Rights, and Emotion: How an Emotive Ontology Can Resolve the Tensions Between Universalism and Relativism
This article demonstrates how critical realism can resolve persistent theoretical debates in the human rights literature. Critical realism is a...
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Williams’ Relativism and the Moral Point of View: A Challenge by Cora Diamond
There are similarities between Bernard Williams and Cora Diamond as moral philosophers: both their moral philosophies are marked by an engagement...
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Idealism, relativism, and perception of ethicality of employee behavior in Mainland China and Hong Kong
This paper is aimed at investigating the differences in ethical perception between Mainland China and Hong Kong through qualitative analysis. The...
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Cultural Relativism and Science
In this chapter, Grace Andrus de Laguna examines cultural relativism and its bearing on science.
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A Contextualist Reconsideration of the “Happy Fish” Passage in the Zhuangzi and Its Implications for Relativism
The “happy fish” passage in the Zhuangzi 莊子 is often interpreted as endorsing some form of perspectivism which precludes objective claims of...
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Poverty, Human Rights, and just Distribution
PovertyPoverty is a serious threat for human beings and their well-beingWell-being. People are simply unable to live a good life when they are faced...
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Liars, Skeptics, Cheerleaders: Human Rights Implications of Post-Truth Disinformation from State Officials and Politicians
The purpose of this paper is to philosophically examine how disinformation from state officials and politicians affects the right to access to...
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Alasdair MacIntyre on Human Rights
Alasdair MacIntyre is, probably, the most important author writing within the Thomistic tradition who is critical of the notion of human rights. Most...
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XII Ethics and Universal Human Rights
This chapter deals with the relationship of ethics to universal human rights. For a reason-oriented ethics, the freedom of the person and their...
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Disagreement, Points of View, and Truth-Relativism
Truth-relativism is the claim that the truth of statements is dependent on the context in which they are made. In this article, truth-relativism is...
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Beyond Moral Relativism and Objectivism
Along this chapter I develop a criticism of relativism and objectivism in moral thinking. I propose instead a contextually situated point of...
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Cognitive Relativism and Experiential Rationality
Along this chapter I discuss different theories of epistemic relativism. I argue that it is possible to construct a theory of knowledge that is both...
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Contemplating the principles of the UNESCO declaration on bioethics and human rights: a bioaesthetic experience
The purpose of our article is to contemplate, from an aesthetic-artistic vision, the principles of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human...
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Pointers to Pluralism Not Relativism
This chapter is in two parts. The first part explores why it has become convenient for critics of pluralist theologies of religions to accuse its...
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Ethical Relativism and Circumstances of Social and Cultural Contingencies on Informed Consent in the Conduct of Research: Clinical Trials in Nigeria
There have been debates across the globe for a social and culturally sensitive ethics to meditate a catalyst of template for informed consent (IC) in...
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Utilitarianism and Relativism with a Bias
While Jeremy Bentham provides his own calculations regarding the utility of courage, Henry Sidgwick invites everyone to methodically assess their...
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Human Rights and Pluralist Universalism
In this chapter I present the philosophical justification of the theory of human rights here proposed. I begin by confronting two approaches with the...