universalism and relativism

• What is interculturalism?/Qu'est ce que l'interculturalisme?

... directly or not, use the pretext of universalism to bestow a systematic, a priori precedence on wha... with that model (fragmentation, relativism, and so forth), although in reality, one suspects ...

• McGill Law Journal
• Vol. 56 Nbr. 2, February 2011

• Reawakening Canada's China Policy

Canada is a country that likes to think of itself as having a foreign policy driven by the high ideals of liberal internationalism - what I take to be the advance of universally recognized and widely accepted human rights and the creation of effective and legitimate international institutions. An exceptional voice, Evans notes, was Chester Ronning, a Department of External Affairs official and later special envoy in Asia, who constantly urged closer ties, even solidarity, with Maoist China - including supporting its disastrous initiation of the Korean War and releasing a film based on his 1971 visit to the country praising the Cultural Revolution (Ronning 1974).

... of commercial ambition and cultural relativism. Public opinion towards relations with China was w... is out of step with China's cultural universalism. As a bipartisan parliamentary report of 2007 put ...

• Canadian Foreign Policy
• Vol. 14 Nbr. 2, April 2008

• Parent-Youth Relations: Cultural and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

edited by G. W. Peterson, S. K. Steinmetz and S. M. Wilson is reviewed.

... by each culture (i.e., cultural relativism), as well as shared relationship patterns across ccultures (i.e., cultural universalism). The third and final part of the volume is center...

• Journal of Comparative Family Studies
• Vol. 37 Nbr. 3, July 2006

• International law and human rights: the power and the pity.

... we really mean--the promotion of the universalism of democratic values, the instruments of justice t... silencing concepts like cultural relativism, domestic sovereignty, or root causes. . These are...

• McGill Law Journal
• Vol. 55 Nbr. 4, November 2010