CONCILIATIVE NEED FOR HARMFUL CONSEQUENCES OF RELATIVIST CLAIMS IN RELATION TO UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS

Yıl 2015, Cilt: 1 Sayı: 2, 1 - 16, 29.10.2016

Muhammed Çaprak

https://doi.org/10.20978/ijlp.45253

Öz

The meanings, the values and the limits changes from culture to culture. But as the international law becomes more responsive to the demands for rights of individual, this initiative also means a challenge to the validity of certain state practices re¬flecting geographical and cultural particularities.

CONCILIATIVE NEED FOR HARMFUL CONSEQUENCES OF RELATIVIST CLAIMS IN RELATION TO UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS

Öz

The meanings, the values and the limits changes from culture to culture. But as the international law becomes more responsive to the demands for rights of individual, this initiative also means a challenge to the validity of certain state practices re¬flecting geographical and cultural particularities.

In this paper, it will be tried to observe basic claims of both universality and relativism, after that what preventions can be taken to provide the misuse of relativism will be suggested, in the manner of reconciling both ways of thinking in an acceptable order while emphasizing on preventing the core of human rights.