Universal ethics : perspectives and proposals from Scandinavian scholars

ISBN	9041119337 (hbk.)
Call Number	BJ1012 U588 2002
Title	Universal ethics : perspectives and proposals from Scandinavian scholars / edited by Goran Bexell and Dan-Erik Andersson
Imprint	The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff, c2002.
Physical	xix, 234 p. ; 25 cm.
Series Name	The Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library ;v.11
Contents Note	Introduction / Dan-Erik Andersson --Philosophical and Ethical Perspectives --Universalism in Ethics and Cultural Diversity / Goran Bexell --Towards a Better Life: The Possibility of Universal Discourse Ethics / Vilhjalmur Arnason --Universal Ethics - a Futile Effort?: A Contractual Analysis of the Search for a Universal Ethics / Ulf Gorman --Which Nature, Whose Law - and What About Rights?: Reflections on Natural Law as a Tradition of Universalist Ethics / Henrik Syse.
Contents Note	Human Rights Perspectives --UNESCO and a Common Framework for Ethics: Human Rights Concerns / Gudmundur Alfredsson --Ethical Justification of Universal Rights across Normative Divides / Tore Lindholm --Liberal Principles and Minority Rights / Hans-Ingvar Roth --Nationalism and Universal Rights / Per Bauhn.
Contents Note	Universal Ethics and Religion --A Universal Ethic across the Religions? / Lars Ostnor --Religious Affiliation as a Problem for Universal Ethics / Jan Hjarpe --European Perspectives on Ethics and Religion / Werner G. Jeanrond.
Contents Note	Universal Ethics, Globalisation and Global Governance --Globalisation, Values and Global Governance / Georg Sorensen --Global Ethics beyond Westphalia / Bjorn Hettne --Features of Contemporary Globalisation and the Ethical Challenges They Pose to Universal Ethics: Globalisation with Many Faces / Elisabeth Gerle --Globalisation and the Dimension of Culture and Values: The Need for New Understanding and New Tools / Karl Eric Knutsson.
Contents Note	Universal Ethics and Nordic Values --Social Capital and Its Impact on Moral and Political Values: The Nordic Experience / Thorleif Pettersson, Ole Riis --Political Culture and the Nordic Model: Ethics and Practice / Eva Osterberg.
Subject	Ethics
Coorperative Author	Bexell, Goran, editor
Coorperative Author	Andersson, Dan-Erik, editor

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