Reiner Forst contribution to the ideal of global justice: the basic right to justification

Abstract

The debate between moral universalism and ethical particularism still didn’t find a univocal point of conciliation. While the particularistic perspective is criticized the leveling of the particularities and cultural differences produced by the universalist positions, in turn this position, criticized the dangerous tendency to legitimate, from the perspective of ethical particularism, certain cultural practices that threaten the rights and basic freedoms. With Reiner Forst, presents an attempt of conciliation to this debate by his thesis on the basic right to justification, which is nothing else than a new conception of human rights and Justice.