Year
2016
Volume
10
Number
2
Page
185
Language
English
Court
Reference
A. FÖRSTER, “The Concept of Human Rights – Dissolving the Universality- Plurality Puzzle”, HRILD 2016, nr. 2, 185-199
Recapitulation
The paper addresses the question of how the universal claim embedded in the concept of human rights can be reconciled with a pluralism of sets of human rights norms, in an attempt to resolve the tension between universality and plurality in the human rights discourse. On the basis of the application of John Rawls’s concepts of reasonable pluralism and an overlapping consensus to human rights as well as an analysis of different regional human rights declarations, I argue that the concept of human rights and basic principles are universally shared, but that those norms are surrounded by pluralistic cultural and historical interpretations and manifestations of norms derived from the moral worth of human beings.