Within the international human rights circle,Abduliahi AhmedAn-Na’im is regarded as a representative of Southern voices."Under such a circumstance that the confrontation between the West and non-Western countrie...Within the international human rights circle,Abduliahi AhmedAn-Na’im is regarded as a representative of Southern voices."Under such a circumstance that the confrontation between the West and non-Western countries on human rights has become a routine reality,An-Na’im advocates a contingent universality of human rights or"contingent universality of human rights,"and insists that the universality of human rights be based on the cultural legitimacy of human rights.While he sees the internal dialogue of human rights in all non-Western countries,including Islamic ones,as a basic way to ensure the international human rights standards be accepted gradually,he also believes the cross-cultural dialogue among different societies can eventually lead to the reconstruction of the legitimacy of international human rights standards or even the standards themselves.An-Na’im’s theory of moderate cultural relativism points a way to achieve universality of human rights for developing countries,but there are a few questions that need to be further addressed.展开更多
"Culture" is such a broad concept which is understood and defined differently by different people and has been remaining a focus for research.Some view culture as skills,values,understandings,knowledge or wa..."Culture" is such a broad concept which is understood and defined differently by different people and has been remaining a focus for research.Some view culture as skills,values,understandings,knowledge or ways of being achieved as members of society and it is acquired and transmitted over generations;some regard culture as meaning which is established and constructed in practice and it is the context of production of new meaning and constraint of action.In this article it will focus on two theories of culture,namely,Cultural Relativism and Cultural Structuralism,and will illustrate the general ideas,main representatives and their arguments of these two theories.展开更多
基金funded by“Research on the Universality and Subjectivity of Human Rights”(Research Subject Grant No.14BFX141),a general project of the National Social Science Fund of China
文摘Within the international human rights circle,Abduliahi AhmedAn-Na’im is regarded as a representative of Southern voices."Under such a circumstance that the confrontation between the West and non-Western countries on human rights has become a routine reality,An-Na’im advocates a contingent universality of human rights or"contingent universality of human rights,"and insists that the universality of human rights be based on the cultural legitimacy of human rights.While he sees the internal dialogue of human rights in all non-Western countries,including Islamic ones,as a basic way to ensure the international human rights standards be accepted gradually,he also believes the cross-cultural dialogue among different societies can eventually lead to the reconstruction of the legitimacy of international human rights standards or even the standards themselves.An-Na’im’s theory of moderate cultural relativism points a way to achieve universality of human rights for developing countries,but there are a few questions that need to be further addressed.
文摘"Culture" is such a broad concept which is understood and defined differently by different people and has been remaining a focus for research.Some view culture as skills,values,understandings,knowledge or ways of being achieved as members of society and it is acquired and transmitted over generations;some regard culture as meaning which is established and constructed in practice and it is the context of production of new meaning and constraint of action.In this article it will focus on two theories of culture,namely,Cultural Relativism and Cultural Structuralism,and will illustrate the general ideas,main representatives and their arguments of these two theories.
