Abstract
This chapter provides an examination of the relational and hermeneutic epistemology. This epistemology constitutes a methodology, which is important in human rights education, since it paves the way for global mass cultural legitimization with regard to human rights. The methodology is a constructive means to transcend the dichotomy inherent in the Universalist-Cultural Relativist debate by providing a conception of the epistemological requirements for the realization of a freestanding universal scope of human rights based upon an overlapping consensus. It is a search for a “fusion of horizons,” a cross-cultural overlapping consensus on human rights. This consensus is not based in moral realism or in transcendental idealism; rather, it is conceptualized and affirmed from within a plurality of cultures.
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