Annotation

The relevance of the study of modern approaches to substantiating the universality of human rights is due to the crisis of their legitimacy in the context of growing geopolitical competition and politicization of cultural differences. The old metaphysical justifications do not work in conditions of cultural and political pluralism. This requires new, procedural and intersubjective models that could legitimize human rights for all participants in the global dialogue. As a promising solution to this problem, the article examines the theory of the German political philosopher Rainer Forst, who deduces the universality of human rights from a fundamental moral requirement ("the right to justification"), from the procedure of their discursive justification that is inseparable from the socio-cultural context.