Understanding the Global Ethic Project

Public Reason 4 (1-2):18-27 (2012)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

There are various global problems we find ourselves faced with and those problems necessitate a new kind of ethic, a global one. I will argue that while there are several ways of understanding it one is more adequate than others. That claim has implications for the kind of basis suitable for global ethic, namely that we need a political ethic, such as liberalism. I will also take up some general objections which this kind of global ethic is able to give good replies.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,435

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

On the idea of a global ethic.Kwasi Wiredu - 2005 - Journal of Global Ethics 1 (1):45 – 51.
The shape of a global ethic.Robin Attfield - 2006 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 32 (1):5-19.
How to do good & avoid evil: a global ethic from the sources of Judaism.Hans Küng - 2009 - Woodstock, Vt.: SkyLight Paths. Edited by Walter Homolka.
Global ethics and human rights: A reflection.Sumner B. Twiss - 2011 - Journal of Religious Ethics 39 (2):204-222.
Bioregionalism and Cross-Cultural Dialogue on a Land Ethic.Richard Evanoff - 2007 - Ethics, Place and Environment 10 (2):141 – 156.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-10-26

Downloads
20 (#754,879)

6 months
4 (#790,778)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Mats Volberg
University of Tartu

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Political Liberalism.John Rawls - 1993 - Columbia University Press.
The idea of justice.Amartya Sen - 2009 - Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Moral dimensions: permissibility, meaning, blame.Thomas Scanlon - 2008 - Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Famine, Affluence, and Morality.Peter Singer - 1972 - Oxford University Press USA.
Famine, affluence, and morality.Peter Singer - 1972 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 1 (3):229-243.

View all 10 references / Add more references