УНИВЕРЗАЛИЗАЈЦИЈА КАО ПРОБЛЕМ ТЕОРИЈЕ ЉУДСКИХ ПРАВА
UNIVERSALISATION - A HUMAN RIGHTS THEORY PROBLEM

Summary/Abstract: Universalisation is one of the key problems of human rights theory since implementing the idea implies difficulties in terms of conception of man, of the way of expressing his essence and of articulating it from the viewpoint of law. Unification is not universalisation, since an individual possesses universality as a potential, which, in final analysis, is a recognition by another man. Universalisation is not achieved through raising the level of generalisation either. Significant in contemporary world is the change of context of putting universality as a problem. Language, first of all, has established a special kind of mutuality transgressing traditional forms of interpersonal relations. Therefor, one of the greatest problems of communication is found in the conception of similarities and differences between people. One is not so sure that human rights too, have solved the questions of communities, while not, at the same time, being liable to the objection of collectivism. In a way, universalisation requires that basic issues be raised transculturally and that cultural difference be treated rather seriously. The problem of universalisation is also a specific method, a logic of wish and, in the final analysis, striving for a better self.

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