Multicultural Human Rights

8 Março 2021, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

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Analysis of Boaventura de Sousa Santos' article on a multiculrual approach to Human Rights.

Culture as a universal

22 Fevereiro 2021, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

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The notio of the human capacity for culture as the ground for a new universalism, following Terence Turner's work on indigenous peoples.

Relativism vs universalism

8 Fevereiro 2021, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

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Main theories of universalism and main approaches to relativism. Ethical relativism vs methodological relativism. Problems with the concept of universality/humanity in universalism and problems with the concept of culture in relativism.

Introductio

1 Fevereiro 2021, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

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Introduction to the course. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: context of its drafting. Human Rights as an emancipatory discourse after the Cold War.