Global Ethics in a Time of Crises - by Göran Collste & Torbjörn Lodén (Hardcover)

About the Book

A thought-provoking and essential collection for anyone seeking insight into how we can build a more just and sustainable world.

Book Synopsis

A thought-provoking and essential collection for anyone seeking insight into how we can build a more just and sustainable world.
This book brings together leading international scholars in philosophy, social sciences, and religious studies to reflect on how global problems can be understood and addressed through an ethical lens. As the original scholarship in this volume reveals, the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East; the tensions in East and Southeast Asia and growing global insecurity; the climate crisis and environmental destruction; and the risk for global pandemics and global inequalities all call for action based on globally shared ethical principles and values.

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Global Ethics in a Time of Crises is a significant addition to the current global ethics literature. Wars, climate change, heightened international tensions and so on, require global solutions if a peaceful world is to be achieved. This book, with authors from a range of cultural, philosophical and religious backgrounds, is a major contribution.

Is it possible to develop an argument for global ethics while at the same time engaging in a dialogue between scholars from different cultural, religious, and philosophical traditions? The essays in Global Ethics in a Time of Crises show that it is possible when aiming at moral contributions to peace, to climate change, or global justice.

This insightful volume contributes significantly to contemporary ethical discourse. It shows how global ethical approaches can offer new perspectives in times of multiple crisis worldwide by uniting distinguished scholars from diverse continents and ethical traditions to address war, climate crisis and global justice. It is highly inspiring by exploring the possibilities for developing global approaches for ethical thinking that are responsive to cultural plurality and grounded in a diversity of ethical traditions.

About the Author

Göran Collste is Emeritus Professor of Applied Ethics at Linköping University, Sweden. He was 2011-2015 President of the Societas Ethica, the European Society for Research in Ethics and is currently expert member of the Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics.

Torbjörn Lodén is Emeritus Professor of Chinese Language and Culture at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. He is presently representing the Union Académique Internationale (UAI) at the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH).