INTRODUCTION The notion of universal application of human rights has invited many debates with various scholars arguing for and others taking the notion as being contextually based. This paper wishes to show how human rights are universal‚ taking into consideration the international covenants and treaties that states have assented to in a bid to show how human rights are observed‚ though the degree of respect varies from society to society. However‚ Beetham (2000: 16) postulates that to think of
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Is moral universalism the truth? According to Streiffer [1]‚ moral universalism is an ethical position that there are some moral values which are agreed by all people‚ ignoring nationality‚ culture‚ religion or other differentiating features. Some famous philosophers‚ from the ancient Platonists and Stoics‚ to modern Kantian‚ Objectivist‚ believed in moral universalism. Besides‚ a majority of religions have morally universalist positions. However‚ at the same time‚ there are also some famous philosophers
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When considering the theory of morality. There are many different views about the guidelines humans should follow in order to be a good human and live in a functional environment. Monism‚ pluralism‚ and particularism are three different ideas about how one should make decisions. Pluralism seems to be the most plausible in our society. Monism states that there is one principle of rightness. An example of this is utilitarianism. The utilitarian view considers the optional‚ obligatory and forbidden
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What is the relationship between soft and hard universalism? Which of the two doctrines you agree with the most and which of the two you feel applies to our current social environment the most? Please be specific and provide one example. The relationship between soft and hard universalism is that both have a set of universal morals that applies to every individual. However‚ for soft universalism‚ it is the universal morals that can be applied to all individuals‚ even if we think that someone is morally
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Issues Today: Universalism vs. Cultural Relativism One of the most pertinent issues of the past twenty years has been the conflict between two different ideologies of human rights on a national scale‚ universalism‚ and cultural relativism. Universalism holds that more “primitive” cultures will eventually evolve to have the same system of law and rights as Western cultures. Cultural relativists hold an opposite‚ but similarly rigid viewpoint‚ that a traditional culture is unchangeable. In universalism
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Trompenaars vs. Hofstede 1. 2. Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 2 Cultural Dimensions of Hofstede and Trompenaars ................................................... 3 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Analogies or identities of the cultural dimensions ...................................................... 5 Differences of the dimensions ...................................................................
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Information systems (IS) focuses on the system making use of technology and information technology (IT) focuses on technology and how it can help in disseminating information. Usually Information system are build using the information technology. Information system referring to system designed to create‚ store‚ manipulate‚ communicate and disseminate information. Information systems typically include an IT component but are not purely concerned with IT‚ focusing in instead‚ on the end use of
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Linux vs. Mac vs. Windows Linux vs. Mac vs. Windows The operating systems Linux®‚ Macintosh® (Mac) and Microsoft® Windows® are the main software to every computer system to run properly along with other hardware. These operating systems (OS ’s) are very different in several ways‚ but they also have some similarities too. Linux‚ Mac and Windows use memory management‚ process management‚ file management and security management to operate the computer systems correctly
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Geert Hofstede vs. Fons Trompenaars Introduction How do we market in different cultures? Although we have done many researches about the different cultures‚ marketing‚ which is as a discipline‚ has lagged behind other researches in recognizing the need for it. Before we have found the importance of marketing in different cultures‚ usually‚ the approach for marketing was too simple‚ and we often use the economic theory to explain facts and solve problems‚ however‚ international marketing and
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been many cases that have made an effort to abolish segregation. Two cases that didn’t just make an effort‚ but did just that were Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education. They were related to each other as well because one changed the precedent established in the other. They also helped the country identify more with freedom than slavery. The Plessy vs. Ferguson case happened in 1892 and was about a man named Homer Plessy who was an octoroon. He bought a ticket and sat in a whites only
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