The ethical foundation of human rights

For many years toward the end of the twentieth and the beginning of this third millennium the question of ethical foundation of law and of politics itself has been set aside in many areas of contemporary culture under the pretext that every claim to an objective and universal truth would be a source of intolerance and violence, and that only relativism could safeguard human rights, the dignity of the person, regardless of the underlying reasons that they find their ultimate explanation and foundation, reason and justification. The latter can only be phylosophical, ethical and religious, because they are based on man's ontological structure.