A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Econotnics

Bibliographic Data

ID20004727
AuthorsHans Ku̇ṅg (corresponding author)
Year1998
Pages315
Publication date1998-04-16
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueA global ethic for global politics and economics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780195122282.001.0001
OpenAlexW4388287472
Open LibraryOL683790M
ISBN9780195122282
LanguageEN
Citations received33

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

Civilization · Commit · Dignity · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Global citizenship · Global politics · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Realpolitik · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life · 1989 · Ethics · International economic relations · Moral and ethical aspects · Religion and international affairs · Religion and international relations · Religious aspects · Religious aspects of International economic relations · World politics