From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 12 November 2024
- Subject(s):
- Constitutional processes — Principles and objectives of constitutions — Types of constitutions — Comparative constitutional law
General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani
1 Like universalism, the methodological attitude referred to as universalist approach denotes the idea of ‘extending over’ and ‘including’ the whole of something. Associated with practices of generalization, it indicates both a concept common to the whole humankind and the process whereby an idea is, or is intended to be, used everywhere. 2 Generalizations are methodological or substantive. Whereas the latter points to the condition of being universal in scope and character, the former considers the dissemination of allegedly universal concepts. In both cases,...
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