Cultural Relativism and the International Community Sample Clauses

Cultural Relativism and the International Community. Having successfully grounded human rights in the natural law tradition, it is time to put the claim to universality to the test and address the argument from cultural relativism. Cultural relativism often proceeds by imposing a false dichotomy on its prey: that a moral system is either culturally relative or culturally chauvinist. Natural law categorically rejects this claim; “to say that some [cultural practices] are morally bad is not to say that there is only one culture that is morally good.”58 It is not the case that natural law imposes a single static norm to which peoples of the world should conform; its objection to cultural relativism need not preclude cultural pluralism. Rather, natural law allows for tremendous cultural diversity, respecting that disparate cultural practices can all lead an individual to a fulfilling and moral life. International law actively seeks to protect the right of communities to preserve their distinct ways of life.59 However, international human rights institutions are justified in forbidding particular cultural norms that constitute human rights violations; natural law simply maintains that such practices exist as a product of the misuse of practical reasonableness, resulting in unreasonable conclusions. In this way, human rights may be conceived of as limitations on pluralism.60 We saw above that the final condition of practical reasonableness was fostering the common good. This idea is related to the realization of human rights 58 Ibid, 242. 59 3rd Generation solidarity rights do not enjoy the same recognition as the aforementioned civil, political, economic, and social rights but may be still be seen as a precondition for human flourishing. They will be considered in the following chapter. 60 Xxxx Xxxxx, “The Law of Peoples,” in Xxxx Xxxxx: Collected Papers, ed. Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999). insofar as the common good refers to each and every individual’s well being within a community. With a closer reading of the common good, we must decide whether states party to international human rights legislation actually comprise an “international community.”61 To speak of an international community would be to challenge the Westphalian notion that the nation-state is a complete community capable of securing the good of individuals. Critics consider the international system “institutionally defective”62 since it relies upon the state for application of its law. Even with conceding that internati...
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