Rights of culture, rights of conscience

• Main Author: KUKATHAS, Chandran
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Human Personality; Cultural Relativist; Religious Freedom; Islamic Tradition; Religious Liberty; Political Theory; Religion
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2989; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4246/viewcontent/Between_Cosmopolitan_Ideals_and_State_Sovereignty________10_Rights_of_Culture_Rights_of_Conscience_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this contribution I take up a particularly troubling issue in the theory of human rights. It is the issue of intervention to defend or uphold — or re-assert and re-establish — human rights. The issue is a troubling one because intervention in the affairs of others is always something we should be...