Relativism and Human Rights : A Theory of Pluralist Universalism

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.