The Challenges of Globalization
Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom
AJES - Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice
1. Edition December 2007
280 Pages, Softcover
Professional Book
Short Description
This volume contains eleven essays dealing with the question of how to face the current challenges of globalization. These essays examine topics ranging from global justice, international law, and human rights to ecoterrorism, cultural relativism, and the challenges of autonomy. Many of the essays included here discuss how a comprehensive ethical action is necessary in order to overcome repressive social, political, and cultural obstacles. Most of the essays in this volume were selected from the 2005 Sixth World Congress of the ISUD (International Society for Universal Dialogue) held in Helsinki, Finland. The volume is introduced by Steven V. Hicks, past President of the ISUD, who discusses the issues of cultural conflict and crisis in the aftermath of Nietzsche's philosophy.
This volume contains eleven essays dealing with the question of how to face the current challenges of globalization. These essays examine topics ranging from global justice, international law, and human rights to ecoterrorism, cultural relativism, and the challenges of autonomy. Many of the essays included here discuss how a comprehensive ethical action is necessary in order to overcome repressive social, political, and cultural obstacles. Most of the essays in this volume were selected from the 2005 Sixth World Congress of the ISUD (International Society for Universal Dialogue) held in Helsinki, Finland. The volume is introduced by Steven V. Hicks, past President of the ISUD, who discusses the issues of cultural conflict and crisis in the aftermath of Nietzsche's philosophy.
Steven V. Hicks and Daniel E. Shannon, Editors.
pages 1-5.
Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom .
By Steven V. Hicks.
pages 7-23.
1 From a State of War to Perpetual Peace .
By Edward Demenchonok.
pages 25-47.
2 Discourse Ethics, Democracy, and International Law: Toward a Globalization of Practical Reason .
By Karl-Otto Apel.
pages 49-70.
3 Rethinking Global Justice from the Perspective of All Living Nature and What Difference it Makes .
By James P. Sterba.
pages 71-86.
4 Human Rights, Global Justice, and Disaggregated States: John Rawls, Onora O'Neill, and Anne-Marie Slaughter .
By Alyssa R. Bernstein.
pages 87-111.
5 Beyond Intrinsic Value: Undermining the Justification of Ecoterrorism .
By Charles S. Brown.
pages 113-125.
6 Does Kant Have Anything to Teach Us about Environmental Ethics? .
By Marc Lucht.
pages 127-149.
7 A Cultural Critique of Cultural Relativism .
By Xiaorong Li.
pages 151-171.
8 Culture, Evil, and Horror .
By Paul Santilli.
pages 173-193.
9 Persons: Natural, Functional, or Ethical Kind? .
By John P. Lizza.
pages 195-216.
10 The Subject of Freedom at the End of History: Socialism Beyond Humanism .
By John Sanbonmatsu.
pages 217-235.
11 A Rediscovery of Heaven-and-Human Oneness .
By Keping Wang.
pages 237-259
