universality
Universality (from Latin universus , "total" and late Latin universalitas , "totality") denotes spatial and temporal immutability, as well as the generalizability and the comprehensive character of knowledge, education and scientific statements.
The term universality has different meanings in different sciences and areas :
- In ethics , universality (ethics) describes the general validity of important moral concepts or cultural convictions such as values or human rights .
- The media studies used universality (Media Studies) as a feature of media types (eg. The newspaper ), a large variety of topics and content of general interest to offer.
- In musicology , universality denotes the universals of music perception , innate elements of music perception and processing.
- In pedagogy , universality (pedagogy) describes the developmental steps that almost all people worldwide go through in a certain order (in contrast to diversity ).
- In physics , universality (physics) describes the independence of mechanical systems from dynamic processes.
- In jurisprudence , universality (jurisprudence) describes the global validity of legal relationships.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Knowledge Center: Universality in the Bertelsmann Lexikothek Online (Large Foreign Dictionary) , accessed on April 25, 2009.
- ↑ Peter Dudy: Human rights between universality and particularity. An interdisciplinary study on the idea of world domestic politics (= Politica 1 series ). LIT Verlag, Berlin et al. 2002, ISBN 3-8258-5972-X .
- ^ Jan Kropholler : International Private Law. Including the basic concepts of international civil procedural law. 6th revised edition. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-16-148923-3 , p. 156.