Outrelativizing relativism: a liberal defense of the universality of international human rights.

From: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law | Date: May 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

This Article seeks to provide a new framework, rooted in classical liberalism, for understanding and defending the universality of international human rights. After reviewing the philosophical and historical development of the idea of universality, Part II argues that none of the traditional justifications for conceiving of international human rights as universal succeed. Cultural pluralism therefore must be accepted as a descriptive truth. But to acknowledge the cultural contingency of values as a descriptive claim does not, by itself, undermine the normative claim ...

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