An Ethics of Global Responsibility

This book-blog develops a conception of a global ethics that attempts to describe an ethical framework for a global moral community that includes all living human beings, near and distant future generations, and all of those non-human living beings possessing moral status whose well-being and survival are deserving of moral consideration by human moral agents.

Geopoliticus Child

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This painting by Salvador Dali, The Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man, is my choice for an image to represent the main t...
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Epigram - Tikkun Olam

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תיקון עולם The Meaning of Tikkun Olam The Hebrew words transliterated as "tikkun olam,"which mean to heal (or repair) the world, ...

Global Threats

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We live during times in which we are aware that hundreds of millions of persons suffer from conditions of severe poverty, economic deprivati...

Characteristics of Global Threats

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These global threats are not the only ones that we face, but they form an important subset because they represent kinds of threats that diff...

Taking Responsibility

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If this narrative resonates at all with you, then the obvious question that presents itself is: “What am I to do?” Perha...
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Morton Winston
Ewing, New Jersey, United States
is Professor of Philosophy and former Chairman of the Department of Philosophy, Religion, and Classical Studies at The College of New Jersey.I have received three Fulbright Scholarships, to South Africa (1992), Thailand (1999), and Denmark (2007) where I was the Danish Distinguished Chair of Human Rights and International Relations. I have a long career as a human rights activist and am a former chairman of the board of directors of Amnesty International USA.
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