The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights is an example of moral universalism in practice.
Nonetheless, the neofundamentalists present a classic challenge to cosmopolitanism, because they, too, offer a moral and, in its way, inclusive universalism.
Whatever the right is, for Kohlberg, it must be universally valid across societies (a position known as "moral universalism"): there can be no relativism.
Conservative psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple wrote in 2010 that Singerian moral universalism is "preposterous-psychologically, theoretically, and practically".
Here we will attempt to illustrate these qualities by offering a brief overview of one set of interlocking themes-namely, moral universalism, the modern state, and economics.
Patel's important proviso here is that a stronger version of Benhabib's accompanying principle of moral universalism is also pursued.
Moral absolutism is not the same as moral universalism (also called moral objectivism).
The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be read as assuming a kind of moral universalism.
Black anarchists oppose the anti-racist conception based on the moral universalism of the Age of Enlightenment, which is proposed by the anarchist workers' tradition.
So, moral universalism is false, because objective ethical standards vary between cultures or societies.