Universality is a term applied to an element or situation known and used worldwide; most of all the word universality is applied to refer to those ideas or beliefs that are based on a universal truthor managed by the majority of the inhabitants of the whole world, it can be said then that universalism is not a world ideology but rather is a way of interpreting the reality lived under the same horizon or belief, a universal thought is one that gives trust in faithful believers that idea of explaining, conceptualizing and seeing things from the same point of view, this is what happens for example with religions, which always have a way of explaining why things happen, whatever Whether the theological belief is accompanied by a universalist thought.
It is very common that there are universal ideologies that contradict each other, what more examples than the different existing religions, such as Christianity and Islam, powerful theological beliefs that handle a large number of people; However, universalism not only focuses on religion, there is also moral universalism, which are the common beliefs within a community that classify an action as moralistic or not, or scientific universalism that bases all earthly events on science looking for an explanation to everything, moving completely away from religious thought.
Another type of universalist thought that plays an important role in the world is political universalism, this is a type of doctrine that presumes the unification of all powers and institutions under the same organization and thought, an example of this would be the medieval caliphates and empires.
