Relativism and Human Rights

Abstract

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) undoubtedly arose as a need to have a legislative framework that gave certain rights to all men without distinction. Faced with this universality, great debates have arisen that have questioned the benefits of the UDHR and have even created skeptics about its true intention. In the present text I will make a journey in search of a critical analysis between absolutism and relativism that can be analyzed from the UDHR. Given the position of the West as a bulwark of the goodness of man exemplified in the UDHR, I will make a critique based on the work of Freud Current considerations on war and death (1915). Finally, I will expose the proposal of Leon Olivé around a term called Pluralism and how this idea can help a new vision of Human Rights (HR) in pursuit of mutual respect.