Values and Norms in the Age of Globalization
1st Edition
Published on 27. February 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
572 pages
978-3-631-55171-4 (ISBN)
Description
The authors of this book, scholars from Germany, Austria, the United States, Kirghizia and Poland, seek an answer to the challenges posed to social sciences by the globalization epoch. The challenges apply to such problems as the establishment of rights and rules and institutions governing the existence of supra- and international communities, the development of a common system of ethical values, moral standards and norms (or even the creation of a system of entirely new values, standards and norms) supporting the unification process, as well as the legitimacy and validity of transferring the values and standards and the models of economy and politics characteristic of European culture to other cultures and civilizations. This book raises the questions that are particularly significant to the present-day political practice in its European and global dimensions: the questions of place, role and dimension, as well as topicality or transformations in the post-modern order of the world, of such moral values, standards and norms present in politics as human rights, freedom, justice, responsibility, solidarity, tolerance, forgiveness, peace, security, education, modernization or democracy and law.
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Persons
The Editor: Ewa Czerwinska-Schupp is professor of the Institute of Philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland). Her research focuses on social philosophy, political philosophy, social and political systems, and the history of Marxism. She is author and editor of numerous books.
Content
Ewa Czerwinska-Schupp: Introduction - Karl-Otto Apel: «Jus gentium» or «Cosmopolitan Law»? The Topicality of a Kantian Aporia Today - Dietrich Böhler: Sich-Verantworten in der globalisierten high-tech-Zivilisation. Ein Diskurs zwischen Hans Jonas, Karl-Otto Apel und der sokratischen Dialogpragmatik - Christoph Menke: From the Dignity of Man to Human Dignity: the Subject of Rights - Manfried Welan: Drei Weise aus dem alten Österreich: Friedrich August von Hayek, Karl Raimund Popper, Hans Kelsen. Unwissenheit als Grund von Freiheit und Toleranz - Mercedes Torrevejano: Über das Menschliche als Struktur von Möglichkeiten - Peter Kampits: Europe Is More than the European Union - Marek Kwiek: The Future of the Welfare State and Democracy: the Effects of Globalization from a European Perspective - Adam Chmielewski: Two Concepts of Unity in Political Practice - Stephan Grätzel: Das Verzeihen als Grundlage für das kulturelle Zusammenwachsen von Europa - Walter Maria Stojan: Solidarity - an European Value in an Atomizing World - Tadeusz Buksinski: Modernisation as a Value and Norm - Rainer Adolphi: Wert-Konflikte - Ein Selbstverständigungstopos globalisierter Gesellschaften - Erwin Bader: Das Problem der weltweiten religiösen Pluralität aus der Sicht des Weltfriedens - Barbara A. Markiewicz: Politic as a System of Education - Dariusz Dobrzanski: The Problem of Justification of Political Obligations. A Civic Solidarity Argument - Danuta Sobczynska: Motherhood: a Timeless Value for Humankind, a Choice for Her? - Elzbieta Pakszys: Value-Neutrality or Gender Bias in Research on Human Relationships Globalization - Sven Sellmer: Neo-Hinduism as a Response to Globalization - Anna Seweryn: Consumer Choice. Petit Bourgeois Tautology and Bourgeois Individualism in the Age of Globalization - Marek Sikora: On the Role of Science in the Global Society - Piotr Lesniewski: Values in Social Structures. A Formal Study - Werner Krawietz: Beyond Methodological and Theoretical Individualism - Are There Collective Actors or Collective Subjects in Modern Legal Systems? - Roman Tokarczyk: Global Meaning Values and Norms of Biojurisprudence - Otmar Höll: The Global System between Integration and Fragmentation - Thomas Nowotny: Security and Power through Interdependence - on the Morality of Globalization - Zeinep Shaimergenova: Aussenpolitik und Globalisierung am Beispiel der Kirgisischen Republik - Klaus Müller: Globalization and Democracy. Progress and Paradoxes - Jarema Jakubowski: Preconditions of Democracy - Stanislaw Zyborowicz: Alternation of Power as an Important Condition of Democracy - Krzysztof Brzechczyn: Paths to Democracy of the Post-Soviet Republics: Attempt at Conceptualization.