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Book Synopsis Yes to a Global Ethic by : Hans Küng
Download or read book Yes to a Global Ethic written by Hans Küng and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading cultural, political and religious leaders offer witness to a new global awareness and to new ethical consensus, showing how we can move into the 21st Century with integrity. This collection reveals why the world, if it is to survive, needs a fundamental consensus concerning binding values, irrecoverable standards and personal attitudes.
Book Synopsis How to Do Good & Avoid Evil by : Rabbi Walter Homolka
Download or read book How to Do Good & Avoid Evil written by Rabbi Walter Homolka and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore how the principles of a global ethic can be found in Judaism and how they can provide the ethical norms for all religions to work together toward a more peaceful humankind. In 1993, the Parliament of the World's Religions endorsed the "Declaration toward a Global Ethic" composed by Hans Küng. In it, representatives from all the world’s religions agreed on principles for a global ethic and committed themselves to directives of nonviolence, respect for life, solidarity, a just economic order, tolerance, and equal rights and partnership between men and women. But the declaration was just the first step. In this impressive volume, Hans Küng, probably the most famous living Roman Catholic theologian, and Rabbi Walter Homolka, head of Germany’s Abraham Geiger rabbinical seminary and distinguished professor, draw on the Jewish tradition to show the riches that Judaism can offer people of all faiths and nonbelievers in achieving these directives. Presenting key sacred texts and theological writings, the authors make the case for binding values and basic moral attitudes that can be found in Judaism’s universal message of a better world. Exploring Judaism’s focus on ethical conduct over declarations of faith, the authors show that making ethical decisions is indispensable in an ever-changing world.
Book Synopsis Walls to Bridges by : Günther Gebhardt
Download or read book Walls to Bridges written by Günther Gebhardt and published by Ipub Global Connection, LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the religions and ideologies of the world have in common? Why should we focus first on their similarities rather than their differences? What's next in the evolution of the global ethic?Professor and theologian Hans Küng has devoted much of his life to answering these questions.A controversial figure, Küng achieved global notoriety in the late 60's when he became the first major Roman Catholic theologian of the 20th century to question the notion of papal infallibility. For this, he was stripped of his license to teach as a Roman Catholic theologian, but carried on teaching as a tenured professor of Ecumenical Theology at the University of Tübingen, Germany until his retirement in 1996. In the 1990s, Küng initiated a project subsequently referred to the Movement for a "Global Ethic" ("Weltethos" in the original German). After massive world-wide research into past and present ethical principles carried out with the collaboration of many scholars, including Professor Leonard Swidler-who continues their joint work-he spelled out clearly the foundational ethical principles that the world's religions and ideologies, past and present, de facto held/hold in common, that is: The minimal code of behavior that everyone in fact accepts (e.g., "Do not lie, steal, kill innocent persons....") Kung's goal is to highlight how the great religions/ideologies of the world converge on moral values and how this has revealed minimal, but expanding standards: e.g., slavery once was, but no longer is ethically acceptable... equality for women is painfully on that expanding path now! This English translation of The Global Ethic Handbook is a culmination of the "Movement" Küng began in the 90s. In clear language, he describes his vision for a Global Ethic, and step by step he takes the reader on a journey through the essential aspects of a Global Ethic, including its social, political, legal, economics, communications, esthetics, and philosophical applications. It even describes his translation of the Global Ethic/Weltethos into musical compositions-indeed, a full-blown opera! While Engaging the Global Ethic is a broad and comprehensive work, the actualization of a Global Ethic is concrete-not abstract. Professor Küng's vision into the future, built on the expanding Global Ethic is an inspiring read and call to action for all!
Book Synopsis How to Do Good and Avoid Evil by : Walter Homolka
Download or read book How to Do Good and Avoid Evil written by Walter Homolka and published by Skylight Paths Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's world of unrest, we need shared ethical will, moral force and energy among the world's religious traditions. Shows how the overarching message of Judaism--just action as a guiding religious principle--holds a key in the pursuit of universal peace.
Book Synopsis Global Ethics and Civil Society by : Darren O'Byrne
Download or read book Global Ethics and Civil Society written by Darren O'Byrne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed and timely volume examines the impact of global transformations on concepts of civil society. Divided into two sections, it evaluates changing notions of ethics and how these transformations are operationalized. The first part deals with the theoretical aspects while the second examines the practical impact of the evolution of global ethics and norms on society. Providing solid case studies, this accessible volume contributes to the theoretical literature in the field and will prove a useful library reference work or graduate reader in the areas of globalization, civil society, ethics, human rights, citizenship and cosmopolitanism.
Book Synopsis A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics by : Hans Küng
Download or read book A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics written by Hans Küng and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998-04-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone concerned about the world we are creating, this book, written by one of the most important living theologians, offers a cautionary look at the coming global society.
Download or read book Global Ethic written by Hans Kng and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1993-12-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents the text of the 'Declaration' and a commentary on its evolution and significance.... The message of this book is very timely." -The Leading Edge>
Book Synopsis Families, Children, and the Quest for a Global Ethic by : Robert N. Rapoport
Download or read book Families, Children, and the Quest for a Global Ethic written by Robert N. Rapoport and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Multi-Religious Perspectives on a Global Ethic by : Myriam Renaud
Download or read book Multi-Religious Perspectives on a Global Ethic written by Myriam Renaud and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ratified by the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 1993 and expanded in 2018, "Towards a Global Ethic (An Initial Declaration)," or the Global Ethic, expresses the minimal set of principles shared by people—religious or not. Though it is a secular document, the Global Ethic emerged after months of collaborative, interreligious dialogue dedicated to identifying a common ethical framework. This volume tests and contests the claim that the Global Ethic’s ethical directives can be found in the world’s religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions. The book features essays by scholars of religion who grapple with the practical implications of the Global Ethic’s directives when applied to issues like women’s rights, displaced peoples, income and wealth inequality, India’s caste system, and more. The scholars explore their respective religious traditions’ ethical response to one or more of these issues and compares them to the ethical response elaborated by the Global Ethic. The traditions included are Hinduism, Engaged Buddhism, Shi‘i Islam, Sunni Islam, Confucianism, Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Indigenous African Religions, and Human Rights. To highlight the complexities within traditions, most essays are followed by a brief response by an expert in the same tradition. Multi-Religious Perspectives on a Global Ethic is of special interest to advanced students and scholars whose work focuses on the religious traditions listed above, on comparative religion, religious ethics, comparative ethics, and common morality.
Book Synopsis Global Responsibility by : Hans Kung
Download or read book Global Responsibility written by Hans Kung and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-02-19 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely and urgent work, Hans Kung reminds us: - Every minute, the nations of the world spend 1.8 million dollars on military armaments; - Every hour, 1500 children die of hunger-related causes; - Every week during the 1980s, more people were detained, tortured, assassinated, made refugee, or in other ways violated by acts of repressive regimes than at any other time in history; - Every month, the world's economic system adds over 7.5 billion dollars to the catastrophically unbearable debt burden of more than 1.5 trillion dollars now resting on the shoulders of Third World peoples; - Every year, an area of tropical forest three-quarters the size of Korea is destroyed and lost; - Every decade, if present global warming trends continue, the temperature of the earth's atmosphere could rise dramatically with a resultant rise in sea levels that would have disastrous consequences, particularly for coastal areas of all the earth's land masses. In 'Global Responsibility', the author offers important new approaches and concludes that: - There can be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. - There can be no peace among the religions without dialogue between the religions. - There can be no ongoing human society without a global ethic.
Book Synopsis Movement for a Global Ethic by : Michael Kogan
Download or read book Movement for a Global Ethic written by Michael Kogan and published by iPub Global Connection LLC. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movement for a Global Ethic provides an important step in the emerging movement toward global dialogue and peace. It is the belief of the book's contributors that human culture has entered a new age of Global Dialogue in response to increased interpenetration of the world's cultures.In our emerging global village, guidance is needed, for as we have painfully seen, our century is not only the century of world culture, it is also the century of world wars, world famines, and worldwide environmental destruction.In this inspiring and challenging book, Professor Leonard Swidler presents the next stage in the Global Ethic Movement and includes a number of relevant documents, including the Parliament of the World's Religions' "Declaration Toward a Global Ethic" (Hans Küng), The UN InterAction Council's "Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities," and Swidler's draft of a "Universal Declaration of a Global Ethic," followed by responses from scholars of religion representing Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, African, Chinese, and Baha'i traditions.
Book Synopsis Constructing Ethical Patterns in Times of Globalization by : Aleksi Kuokkanen
Download or read book Constructing Ethical Patterns in Times of Globalization written by Aleksi Kuokkanen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the Catholic theologian Hans Küng, this book searches for a model for global ethics by analysing the contemporary philosophical discussion. It demonstrates that the Western model is unable to reckon with exclusivism and difference and presents an alternative model.
Book Synopsis Explorations In Global Ethics by : Sumner B Twiss
Download or read book Explorations In Global Ethics written by Sumner B Twiss and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1998-05-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions, this study brings the subject of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of inter religious dialogue. Contributors here address questions of method and theory and global moral issues--such as human rights, distributive justice, politics of war, international business, the environment, and genocide--in a cross cultural context.
Download or read book World Ethics written by Nigel Dower and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Ethics: The New Agenda identifies different ways of thinking about ethics, and of thinking ethically about international and global relations. It also considers several theories of world ethics in the context of issues such as war and peace, world poverty, the environment and the United Nations.Key Features:* Rejects the idea of international scepticism and the 'morality of states'* Demonstrates the distinction between a global ethic as a theory and as social reality* Defends the claim that we are world citizens with global duties The second edition has been substantially revised to take account of recent global developments. The discussion is grounded in an awareness of the post-9/11 world in which we live and offers a more detailed exploration of the idea of global citizenship and a global or cosmopolitan ethic. There are new sections on terrorism and security and on global justice, and additional material on issues such as climate change, internationalist ethics, the ethics of war, sustainability, development, globalisation, global civil society and global governance. Each chapter now has a summary box at the beginning and a set of questions for discussion at the end.
Book Synopsis Religious Foundations for Global Ethics by : Robert McLaren
Download or read book Religious Foundations for Global Ethics written by Robert McLaren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Foundations for Global Ethics is an overview of morality in a "nation of immigrants," starting with the basic question of what morality is, and culminating in an examination of morality as a source of potential conflict, and how those conflicts can be resolved peacefully. The author strives to discuss ethical concerns from a variety of religious, philosophical and psychological perspectives, so that students are able to conside issues outside of their own cultural point of view.
Book Synopsis A Global Ethic and Global Responsibilities by : Hans Küng
Download or read book A Global Ethic and Global Responsibilities written by Hans Küng and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities, an account of the hi storical background to it, a discussion of its significance, and responses from around the world '
Book Synopsis Explorations In Global Ethics by : Sumner B Twiss
Download or read book Explorations In Global Ethics written by Sumner B Twiss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the 1993 Parliament of the Worlds Religions, this volume for the first time brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of interreligious dialogue. The contributors draw from both communities of discourse in addressing questions of method and theory and global moral issuessuch as human rights, distributive justice, politics of war, international business, the environment, and genocidein a cross-cultural context. }Inspired by the 1993 Parliament of the Worlds Religions, this volume for the first time brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of interreligious dialogue. Its design is premised on two important insights. First, interreligious dialogue offers to comparative religious ethics a new, more persuasive rationale, agenda of issues, and practical orientation. Second, comparative religious ethics offers to interreligious dialogue an arsenal of critical tools and methods which will enhance the sophistication of its practical work. In this way, both theory (a dominant concern and strength of comparative religious ethics) and praxis (a dominant concern and strength of interreligious moral dialogue) are joined together in mutual effort, each contributing to the benefit of the other.The volumes contributors share this vision of collaboration, drawing explicitly from both communities of discourse in a manner that crosses disciplinary and professional boundaries to deal creatively and constructively with important methodological and global moral issue. Although theory and practice cannot easily be separated in such a collaborative project, for the purpose of clarity, the volume is divided into two main parts. The first specifically engages questions of method, theory, and the social role of the public intellectual; the second, on substantive moral themes and issues, many of which were raised at the 1993 Parliament. Taken together, the volumes essays articulate and illustrate new ways of approaching contemporary moral concerns cross-culturally yet with a rigor appropriate to our complex and pluralistic world.
