Four tasks for forward-looking global ethics |
| |
Authors: | Adela Cortina |
| |
Affiliation: | Department of Philosophy, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain |
| |
Abstract: | Our challenge for the twenty-first century consists in showing how to construct a global ethics and in trying to discover a rational foundation for it, which may be used as guidance for action and as a norm for the criticism of specific situations. I argue that four tasks must be accomplished to construct a global ethics: (1) Construct that global governance or that world government that makes cosmopolitan citizenship possible. (2) Foster the joint work of bioethics, economic and business ethics, and development ethics – areas of applied ethics, each one of which on its own has reached the global level. (3) Discover a rational basis for a global ethics, which has a universal normative force, but assumes cultural differences. (4) Develop and promote a dilaogical ethics of cordial reason, which renders one capable of compassion and care. |
| |
Keywords: | Walzer Michael cordial reason global ethic global governance |
|
|