Deconstructing universalism and particularism as the unspoken positioning of the west and non-west, this article not only exposes the enunciative position which formulates the divide, but further disarticulates the putative unity of the west and the Orient which unholds the speaking position. Contrary to what has been understood, this essay seeks to demonstrate that universalism and particularism reinforce and supplement each other; they are never in real conflict; they need each other and have to seek to form a symmetrical, mutually supporting relationship by every means in order to avoid a dialogic encounter which would necessarily jeopardize their reputedly secure and harmonized monologic worlds. Universalism and particularism endorse each other's defect in order to conceal their own; they are intimately tied to each other in their accomplice. In this respect, a particularism such as nationalism can never be a serious critique of universalism, for it is an accomplice thereof.