Philosophical reflections on diversity and universality

Abstract

Caring reflections on diversity and universality originate "in that time so new and so unlike any other before...", of the Discovery of America, where an exceptional encounter with difference brought together two unknown halves of humanity and the commencement of modernity. A reflective comparison describes Diversity and Universality as previous models of Other and Self inducing a philosophical way of considering caring while associating two fundamental principles: the equality of cultures and the recognition of their cultural differences.