Human Rights, Cultural Relativism, and Non-Aligned Countries Perspective

Anti-Essentialism, Relativism, and Human Rights

Feminism is the fire that melts, but does not destroy.

Cultural Relativism 2 . 0

Cultural relativism continues to be closely identified with anthropology even though few anthropologists today endorse the comprehensive version of it first articulated by students of Franz Boas. A review of the progressive reduction of the scope of cultural relativism since the early decades of the twentieth century suggests that it should be regarded not as a comprehensive theory or doctrine ...

1 Kant and Cultural Relativism

We live an age of cultural relativism that asks how universal moral obligation can be justified. Immanuel Kant took up this challenge. His arguments can be reconstructed in a way that makes sense today.

Slapping the Hand of Cultural Relativism: Female Genital Mutilation, Male Dominance, and Health as a Human Rights Framework

The Challenge of Cultural Relativism

In many ways, the paces we've be.cn put through here ;,~.re entirely typical of philosophical disc:ussion. Perhaps most typical is the state of play at the end of the day. Rarely do philosophers have k."lock.down arguments that can eliminate a philosophical position from contenlli>n. Philosophical evaluation is ordinarily a matter of weighing the pros and cons of competing theories, and tentati...