He wants a new Jewish identity focused not on the particular but on the universal, asserting that "if we do not establish modern Israeli identity on foundations of optimism, faith in humans and full trust in the family of nations, we have no chance of existing".
Nor does the universal proposition assert that some class relation holds between A and B – the assertion of a class relation is just a way of saying that certain propositions are true.
It was very educational for a lot of us to go through the dot-com crash, because you remember, in 2002, like there were a number of universal truths asserted in 2002; the Internet didn't matter, consumer Internet business was dead.
To pursue extraterritorial cases like Pinochet's, Garzón mainly relied on Spain's liberal acceptance of a legal doctrine called universal jurisdiction, which asserts that courts in any country can — and should — prosecute cases of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture, and terrorism, if prosecution is not possible in the home country.
"Universal moral principles," he asserts, "cannot be applied to the actions of states in their abstract universal formulation, but …they must be filtered through the concrete circumstances of time and place" (9).
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts our right to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
Moral universalism, or the idea that some system of ethics applies to all people regardless of race, color, nationality, religion, or culture, must have a plurality over which to range - a plurality of diverse persons, nations, jurisdictions, or localities over which morality asserts a universal authority.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts that "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights".
Recent evidence from the Canadian health system asserts that universal vaccination decreased the burden of ILI [ 5, 6]; however, concerns remain in the United States about whether such efforts will be cost effective and whether there are enough immunization providers to achieve universal vaccination [ 7].
Serbs have been prosecuted in German courts, and a court in Senegal asserted universal jurisdiction over the former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré.
If human rights express the equal claim of every person to the recognition and protection of their vital interests, they necessarily assert universal obligations of justice that cross borders.
