A Global Ethic For Global Politics And Economics

Author : Hans Kung
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195352788

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A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics by Hans Kung Pdf

As the twentieth century draws to a close and the rush to globalization gathers momentum, political and economic considerations are crowding out vital ethical questions about the shape of our future. Now, Hans Küng, one of the world's preeminent Christian theologians, explores these issues in a visionary and cautionary look at the coming global society. How can the new world order of the twenty first century avoid the horrors of the twentieth? Will nations form a real community or continue to aggressively pursue their own interests? Will the Machiavellian approaches of the past prevail over idealism and a more humanitarian politics? What role can religion play in a world increasingly dominated by transnational corporations? Küng tackles these and many other questions with the insight and moral authority that comes from a lifetime's devotion to the search for justice and human dignity. Arguing against both an amoral realpolitik and an immoral resurgence of laissez faire economics, Küng defines a comprehensive ethic founded on the bedrock of mutual respect and humane treatment of all beings that would encompass the ecological, legal, technological, and social patterns that are reshaping civilization. If we are going to have a global economy, a global technology, a global media, Küng argues, we must also have a global ethic to which all nations, and peoples of the most varied backgrounds and beliefs, can commit themselves. "The world," he says, "is not going to be held together by the Internet." For anyone concerned about the world we are creating, A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics offers equal measures of informed analysis, compassionate foresight, and wise counsel.

Author : Hans Küng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0197739296

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A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics by Hans Küng Pdf

Author : Mark R. Amstutz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 0742535835

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International Ethics by Mark R. Amstutz Pdf

This text presents the concepts, theories, methods, and traditions of ethical analysis and then applies them to case studies in the areas of human rights, military force, foreign intervention, economic statecraft, and global political justice.

Author : Darren O'Byrne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351933490

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Global Ethics and Civil Society by Darren O'Byrne Pdf

This detailed and timely volume examines the impact of global transformations on concepts of civil society. Divided into two sections, it evaluates changing notions of ethics and how these transformations are operationalized. The first part deals with the theoretical aspects while the second examines the practical impact of the evolution of global ethics and norms on society. Providing solid case studies, this accessible volume contributes to the theoretical literature in the field and will prove a useful library reference work or graduate reader in the areas of globalization, civil society, ethics, human rights, citizenship and cosmopolitanism.

Author : John Kline
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135837921

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Ethics for International Business by John Kline Pdf

The newly-updated version of this groundbreaking textbook continues to provide a topical and relevant analysis of the ethical dimensions of conducting business in a global political economy. From a starting point of applied ethics, the book introduces a common set of normative terms and analytical tools for examining and discussing real case scenarios.

Author : Günther Gebhardt,Hans Küng,Stephan Schlensog
Publisher : Ipub Global Connection, LLC
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1948575337

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Walls to Bridges by Günther Gebhardt,Hans Küng,Stephan Schlensog Pdf

What do the religions and ideologies of the world have in common? Why should we focus first on their similarities rather than their differences? What's next in the evolution of the global ethic?Professor and theologian Hans Küng has devoted much of his life to answering these questions.A controversial figure, Küng achieved global notoriety in the late 60's when he became the first major Roman Catholic theologian of the 20th century to question the notion of papal infallibility. For this, he was stripped of his license to teach as a Roman Catholic theologian, but carried on teaching as a tenured professor of Ecumenical Theology at the University of Tübingen, Germany until his retirement in 1996. In the 1990s, Küng initiated a project subsequently referred to the Movement for a "Global Ethic" ("Weltethos" in the original German). After massive world-wide research into past and present ethical principles carried out with the collaboration of many scholars, including Professor Leonard Swidler-who continues their joint work-he spelled out clearly the foundational ethical principles that the world's religions and ideologies, past and present, de facto held/hold in common, that is: The minimal code of behavior that everyone in fact accepts (e.g., "Do not lie, steal, kill innocent persons....") Kung's goal is to highlight how the great religions/ideologies of the world converge on moral values and how this has revealed minimal, but expanding standards: e.g., slavery once was, but no longer is ethically acceptable... equality for women is painfully on that expanding path now! This English translation of The Global Ethic Handbook is a culmination of the "Movement" Küng began in the 90s. In clear language, he describes his vision for a Global Ethic, and step by step he takes the reader on a journey through the essential aspects of a Global Ethic, including its social, political, legal, economics, communications, esthetics, and philosophical applications. It even describes his translation of the Global Ethic/Weltethos into musical compositions-indeed, a full-blown opera! While Engaging the Global Ethic is a broad and comprehensive work, the actualization of a Global Ethic is concrete-not abstract. Professor Küng's vision into the future, built on the expanding Global Ethic is an inspiring read and call to action for all!

Author : M. S. Ronald Commers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351938921

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Ethics in an Era of Globalization by M. S. Ronald Commers Pdf

This much-needed volume represents all that is new in the field of global ethics. It recognizes the emergence of the search to move beyond relativism and the study of ethical aspects of globalization, acknowledging aspects of globalization that make ethical reasoning itself a challenging task. As such the young field of global ethics is a search for new approaches and methodologies that go beyond existing ones and succeed in addressing these ethical issues of globalization. This volume presents these new developments, focusing specifically on how to re-conceive ethics in order to come to grips with ethical and political life today. It sets out an agenda for the field of global ethics, addresses the critiques and illustrates the rapprochement of global ethics. This is a valuable collection of essays that connect theoretical innovation with substantive issues in the public realm and hence is suitable for a wide audience across philosophy, politics, international relations and development studies.

Author : Jamie Gaskarth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317575115

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Rising Powers, Global Governance and Global Ethics by Jamie Gaskarth Pdf

Two of the dominant themes of discussion in international relations scholarship over the last decade have been global governance and rising powers. Underlying both discussions are profound ethical questions about how the world should be ordered, who is responsible for addressing global problems, how change can be managed, and how global governance can be made to work for peoples in developing as well as developed states. Yet, these are often not addressed or only briefly mentioned as ethical dilemmas by commentators. This book seeks to ask critical and profound questions about what relative shifts in power among states might mean for the ethics and practice of global governance. Three key questions are addressed throughout the volume: Who is rising and how? How does this impact on global governance? What are the implications of these developments for global ethics? Through these questions, some of the key academics in the field explore how far debates over global ethics are really between competing visions of how international society should be governed, as opposed to tensions within the same broad paradigm. By examining how governance works in practice across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, the contributors to this volume seek to critique the way global governance discourse masks the exercise of power by elites and states, both developed and rising. This work will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the future of international relations and global governance.

Author : Kimberly Hutchings
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509513987

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Global Ethics by Kimberly Hutchings Pdf

This revised edition of Kimberly Hutchings’s best-selling textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of Global Ethics for students of politics, international relations and globalization. It offers an overview and assessment of key perspectives in Global Ethics and their implications for substantive moral issues in global politics. These include the morality of state and non-state violence, the obligations of rich to poor in a globalizing world, and the scope and nature of international human rights. The second edition contains expanded coverage of pressing contemporary issues relating to migration, changes in the technologies of war, and the global environment. Hutchings’s excellent book helps non-specialist students to understand the assumptions underpinning different moral traditions, and enables them to formulate their own views on how to approach moral judgement and prescription – essential in a world which, though it is shared by all, possesses massive cultural differences and inequalities of power.

Author : Patrick Riordan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472580856

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Global Ethics and Global Common Goods by Patrick Riordan Pdf

Patrick Riordan takes a different approach to the questions of global ethics by following the direction of questioning initially pioneered by Aristotle; for him the most basic question of ethics is 'what is the good life'? So in the context of contemporary global ethics the Aristotelian questioner wonders about the good life on a global scale. Global Ethics and Global Common Goods fills the gap in existing literature caused by the neglect of the topic of the good in global ethics. Beginning by outlining answers to questions such as 'what is good?' and 'is there a highest good?' Riordan demonstrates the value of a common good perspective in matters of universal human rights and their institutions and practices, the study of international relations and the construction of global institutions, and debates about global justice between cosmopolitanism, nationalism and economic globalization. Philosophical questions provoked by these debates are identified and pursued, such as the question of a common human nature which seems presupposed by the language of universal rights. For experienced students of political philosophy and international relations this is a crucial text in the literature exploring the possibilities for politics on a world scale, while the perspective of the common good adds a new and distinctive dimension to current debates on global security and the challenges of managing conflict.

Author : Martin Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134623310

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Politics and Globalisation by Martin Shaw Pdf

Globalisation is widely understood as a set of processes driven by technological, economic and cultural change. Few have successfully defined the changing character and role of politics in global change. Political institutions such as the nation-state have been seen as undermined by globalisation, or needing to respond to it. This book clarifies the tensions which global change has provoked in our understanding of politics. Politics and Globalisation suggests that globalisation is a process which is politically contested and even politically constituted. The volume presents five key intellectual and political contests in globalisation: · the extent and political significance of globalising changes in economy and society · how and how far the relations and forms of nation-state organisation are transformed · whether the given concepts and methods of political science as a discipline can be applied to global and regional politics, and whether they require radical reformulation; · the role and significance of ethical questions in global change · whether global change is constituted by, or denies, radical political agency

Author : Meghnad Desai,Paul Redfern
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1855673320

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Global Governance by Meghnad Desai,Paul Redfern Pdf

This is the first volume arising from the work of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, based at the London School of Economics. Governance in this context should not be confused with government; it is not the idea of one-world government which is being revived. Global governance as a concept and as a programme needs to be defined in the context of four pillars: post-mural; post-imperial; post-Keynesian; and post-industrial. The two political pillars - the post-mural and the post-imperial - define the constraints on the UN system. The two economic pillars run across the political, and are reconstituting the world in a way more radical than the political. This volume examines the ethical, ecological and economics issues emerging from the changing global order.

Author : Peter G. Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748633982

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Ethics, Economics and International Relations by Peter G. Brown Pdf

Brown offers a historically grounded, argument for human rights to bodily integrity; to moral, religious, and political choice; and to subsistence that all persons owe each other irrespective of nationality. He also argues that we have direct moral obligations to non-humans - he calls this "respect for the commonwealth of life". Honoring these obligations requires a thorough re-grounding of human institutions. The book concludes with the argument that traditional prerogatives of nation states need to be transparent to enforceable international standards concerning human rights and the commonwealth of life, and offers a practical agenda for beginning this fundamental reorientation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134272907

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The Idea of Global Civil Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : E. Heinze
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137322944

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Justice, Sustainability, and Security by E. Heinze Pdf

Justice, Sustainability, and Security not only enhances our knowledge of these issues, but it teases out our moral dimensions and offer prescriptions for how governments and global actors might craft their policies to better consider their effects on the global human condition.