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Ethics in an era of globalization

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Ronald Commers, Wim. Vandekerckhove, Ann Verlinden
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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 - Political Science - 249 pages
Presenting new developments in the field of global ethics, this volume focuses 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.
  

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Contents

The New Global Ethics and its Three Faces
13
Globalization Between Economism and Moralism
27
Grounded Cosmopolitan Praxis
41
Assessing the Ethical Landscape
55
Global Ethics and World Citizenship
75
Why and What Global Ethics?
95
Cosmopolitanism and Community
113
Community and Society on a Transnational Scale
133
Development Ethics Meets Global Justice
149
Reflections on Global Responsibilities and the Nature of Morality
171
Global Ethics as Dialogism
187
A Thought Experiment
221
Index
239
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A Methodologically Pragmatist Approach to Development Ethics
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TitleEthics in an era of globalization
Ethics and global politics
EditorsRonald Commers, Wim. Vandekerckhove, Ann Verlinden
ContributorRonald Commers
PublisherAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008
ISBN075467195X, 9780754671954
Length249 pages
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Political Science / International Relations / General
  
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