Philosophy of Religion Research

A Reflection on Global Ethic; Swidler and Hans Küng\'s Declarations

Document Type : Original Research

Author

Associate Professor at University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Globalization's threat or profit owes global programs, which attempts to achieve this global ethic, is an example of those programs. Hans Küng and Swidler offered global declarations from religious stance to explain global ethic. These declarations in moral pyramid start from fundamental principles, not ultimate criteria, and then end up to basic and middle principles. Efficiency, coherency, adaptation with religions, compatibility with cultures and ethnicity are main topics to be discussed. Global ethic dose not owe to naturalistic theories, morality and essential merit and demerit but requires a theory that can achieve consensus that is reductionist absolutism which according to ultimate criteria of ethic, is achievable.

Keywords

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Philosophy of Religion Research
Volume 1, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
May 2003
Pages 79-88