Moral Grounds and Plural Cultures: Interpreting Human Rights in the International Community

After sketching the three basic types or generations of human rights recognized by the international community, the author explicates their principal conceptual-historical features in four theses concerning socially guaranteed priority interests; hermeneutical interaction; levels of intercultural an...

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Main Author: Twiss, Sumner B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1998
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1998, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 271-282
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Summary:After sketching the three basic types or generations of human rights recognized by the international community, the author explicates their principal conceptual-historical features in four theses concerning socially guaranteed priority interests; hermeneutical interaction; levels of intercultural and intracultural justification; theory-neutrality; he then explores yet further implications of those features (compatibility with both liberal and communitarian traditions; openness to alternative forms of social regulation; radical interdependence of the generations). The article concludes by sketching alternative conceptions of the levels of human rights justification, relating these to recent philosophical positions on the prospects for a common morality.
ISSN:1467-9795
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics