The notion of universal human rights is a fairly new concept, which only came to light after the Second World War, as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. The system of rights was based on The main assumption is that since no one can control their own birth, it should follow that everyone should have the birthright to be protected from certain evils or to be granted certain freedoms. Scholars have read the development of rights as a response to various characteristics of modernity. For example, it has been observed that the deinstitutionalization of social life contributes to the development of rights. As contemporary culture places less emphasis on traditional, meaningful social institutions (such as religion, family, and so on), this creates an unprecedented feeling of precariousness and vulnerability in the human condition, which is then alleviated by the shared humanity found in the human condition. human rights discourse (Turner 2006). Or, another feature believed to contribute to the development of human rights is the modern emphasis on "self-care", which ties the meaning of one's existence to the extent to which one is able to shape one's destiny through will . decisions and actions (Rose 1996). The development of rights integrates with this emphasis on self-enterprise because it guarantees certain freedoms that allow their exercise. Such perspectives are largely characteristic of work on modernity and human rights, which has often focused on relating the development of rights to some features of modernity, or on considering how these reflect its fundamental tensions (e.g. Parekh 2008). In this essay I want to address the issue from a different approach; instead of co...... middle of paper ......dividuate by providing an epistemological framework that reduces the other to the same, which is then used to justify a hostile intervention. In conclusion, I reveal the nature of the human being. The discourse on human rights is haunted by a fundamental ambiguity. Its proposals are aimed at establishing a universal understanding of humanity that is compatible with moral pluralism: an understanding that is applicable across borders, ethnicities and religions and that seeks to address violations of freedoms and safeguard the sacredness of human existence. However, commitment to rights principles appears to have the opposite effect: a privileging of a decidedly “Western” liberal democratic subject, which encourages an expansion of this model of socio-political organization, and a focus on violations of rights that hinders resolution by focusing on the symptom rather than the cause.