Abstract
Despite a long tradition of universalizing philosophies, it is relatively recently that debates explicitly calling for a systematic global ethics have extended beyond the work of philosophers, critics and clerics. In the 1990s, global ethics became for the first time a regularized and institutionalized part of global politics linked to the generalization of a globalizing civil society. The term ‘global civil society’ is itself a recent term. For centuries, philosophers have debated political philosophies of universal, global or world-wide human relations, but a series of moments in the 1990s stand out as marking a concerted and explicit call for political formalization of ethics at a global level.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Globalization and Politics. Vol. 4: Political Philosophies of the Global |
Editors | Paul James |
Place of Publication | U.K. |
Publisher | Sage |
Pages | vii-xxx |
Number of pages | 24 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781412919555 |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- globalization
- ethics
- politics