Abstract

RUIZ RODRIGUEZ, Virgilio. Derechos humanos, universales. En-clav. pen [online]. 2007, vol.1, n.1, pp.155-166. ISSN 2594-1100.

The debate around the universalism of human rights is enclosed within a real dilemma: to unify in the diversity or to diversify neglecting the unity. The problem focuses on this: whether it highlights the unity that goes farther than diversity, or is this diversity underlined in order to neglect the unity. All human beings are equal, there are not too many human natures, there are not even two of them, there is only one, which is placed in bodily form among different human beings. With this last argument, we state that even when we are different, we are at the same time equal; therefore, we affirm that human rights are universal. To recognize the differences is to treat each other as equal beings.

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