Publication of an original scientific paper in the main American pragmatist journal Contemporary Pragmatism (“Pragmatism and Social Ethics: An Intercultural and Phenomenological Approach”, Contemporary Pragmatism, Vol. 5, No. 1 (June 2008), 121–146). The journal is peer-reviewed, with an editorial board, led by the most prominent american pragmatist philosophers from Harvard, Chicago, Stanford, Princeton Universities), and with other members from abroad. In this paper, the author has discussed the intercultural potential of pragmatism.
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The central theme of this monograph is the thematization of the concept of human rights itself. It deals with the genesis of the humans rights and follows their development throughout the history. The monograph also includes an intercultural application and concludes by considering the reproach of cultural imperialism aimed at human rights and by providing a perspective on their further development.
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In this chapter the autor recalls Dewey as being the first pragmatist scholar to use the communal idea of democracy within the intercultural context (during his stay in China). But apart from his Chinese link, Dewey’s ideas had already percolated into a strain of political and social thinking in India: it is to Ambedkar's study years at Columbia (Faculty of Political Science, 1913–1916) that we can trace a significant channel for pragmatic thought in India.
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The article deals with the human rights problematic as discussed in relation to the Olympic games in China in 2008. In particular it analyzes Chinese official rejection of the Western unviersal huzman rigths agenda and gives discusses alternative (Asian) model of justification of human rihgts.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1685971
The article deals with the contemporary pragmatism as related to the so called philosophy of the South (Latin America, Africa, Asia). It is an analysis of a Brasilian-American pragmatist R.M. Unger and his efforts in the field of pragmastist and intercultural thinking. It is precisely the 'border' between the North and the South that is the point of the contemporary globalizational issues of inequalities. The paper is published in the Peace Review which is a renowned American journal for social justice.
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