Flawed attacks on contemporary human rights: Laudan, Sunstein, and the cost-benefit state

Article Abstract:

A study investigates five contemporary attacks on human rights, all of them coming from two contemporary proponents of the cost-benefit state, attorney Cass Sunstein and philosopher Larry Laudan. The study analyzes of these attacks, known as the rationality, objectivity, permission, voluntariness, and comparativism claims, illustrates how they undercut human rights, and argues that each of them is flawed.

Analysis, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Sunstein, Cass R., Laudan, Larry

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Human rights and cultural conflict

Article Abstract:

A conception of human rights that is not affected by contemporary philosophical skepticism about abstract universalism based on historical principles is reviewed. It is shown that this conception could address the resistance to human rights that comes from treating them as the expression of a specific culture.

Comparative analysis, Culture conflict, Cultural conflict

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Human rights in Turkey - a summary report

Article Abstract:

Reports on human rights in Turkey are summarized. These include reports by the U.S. Department of State, the Council of the European Union, and various nongovernmental organizations.

Turkey, Reports, European Union, Non-governmental organizations, Nongovernmental organizations, United States. Department of State

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