id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2203 Universality (philosophy) - Wikipedia .html text/html 823 120 50 Universality (philosophy) Wikipedia Find sources: "Universality" philosophy – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article also discusses Kantian and Platonist notions of "universal", which are considered by most philosophers to be separate notions. Main article: Moral universalism When used in the context of ethics, the meaning of universal refers to that which is true for "all similarly situated individuals."[3] Rights, for example in natural rights, or in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, for those heavily influenced by the philosophy of the Enlightenment and its conception of a human nature, could be considered universal. Universality about truth[edit] This is not to say that universality is limited to mathematics, since it is also used in philosophy, theology, and other pursuits.[citation needed] Universals in metaphysics[edit] Main article: Universal (metaphysics) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2203.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2203.txt