Multiculturalism and the controversy between liberals and communitarians: in defense of human rights interculturality

Abstract

This text aims to deal with the universality of human rights within a multicultural society. It shows the different positions that are adopted by liberals and communitarians when facing the problems of equality and difference that characterize the demands of cultural identity and belonging. It refers that human rights are a common heritage of mankind, and that its mediator/moderate universality is essential the creation of an intercultural dialogue and to the drafting of social emancipation that avoids universalist tendencies that realize homogeneity and fight the oppressive inequality that intents to be a right to difference.