In Times like These

Contents Preface Orientations: Socrates and the Care of the Soul The Deep Trouble with Europe Today Jan Patocka's Double Conviction Patocka on Socratic Inquiry Envoi Endnotes Part One: Situations Essay I: Ethical Standards in International Banking Why Ethics is Important for International Banking Sketching a Philosophical Account The Expression "Minimum Ethical Standards" On What Minimal Ethical Standards Are Not Minimum Ethical Standards as Principles Minimum Ethical Standards as Principles for Action Minimum Ethical Standards as Principles for Right Action Candidates for Minimum Ethical Standards One Minimum Ethical Standard For International Banking Today? Envoi Endnotes Essay II: Ethical Limits and International Law Individual Autonomies and the Community of Values The Task of Peace Today The Limitations and the Capacities of Individuals The Limits of Individual Autonomy Reflexive Philosophies Envoi Endnotes Part Two: Resources Essay III: Cosmopolitanism and the Good of Others Virtues Cosmopolitanism as an Ethical Virtue Difficulties with Cosmopolitanism as an Ethical Virtue Stoic Cosmopolitanism Reviewing Late Stoic Texts on Oikeiôsis Resolving the Difficulties Envoi Endnotes Essay IV: Claims, Attitudes, and Inner Peace in Late Stoic Cosmopolitanism An Old Story A Culture of Peace? Reviewing Late Stoicism Claims and Attitudes . Evaluations and Elucidations Three Reminders A Philosophically Cosmopolitan Attitude? Impulses, Characters, and Reasons Inner Peace. Pulling Things Together Envoi Endnotes Part Three: Issues Essay V: The Relative and the Objective Truths Relative Objectivities The Causal and the Logical What Makes Sentences True Relativisms Envoi Endnotes Essay VI: Realisms and Anti-Realisms Two Situations Two Ways of Counting Constellations and Stars Some Backgrounds Modern Contexts Envoi Endnotes Re-Orientations: The Care of the Soul in Europe Today? Evaluating Patocka's Account Current Contexts The Socratic Elenchus A Renewed Socratic Ethics Today? Envoi: Returning to Europe Endnotes