We the People/s: Bloody Universal Principles and Ethnic Codes  

Oleh:

Seigfried, Hans

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Philosophy & Social Criticism vol. 27 no. 1 (Jan. 2001), page 63–76.
Topik: cosmopolitanism ; ethnic cleansing ; ethnic codes ; human rights ; international organizations ; nationalism ; natural rights ; negotiated agreements ; patriotism ; self-evident truths ; sovereignty ; universal moral principles
Fulltext: 63PSC271.pdf (85.18KB)

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This paper tries to shed some light on the paradox that people cling to national ideologies at just the time when nations are counting less and less in social, cultural, economic and political affairs, and when transnational corporations and international organizations increasingly determine the framework of things. Many nations still rigidly think of themselves as independent and sovereign, accountable to no one but themselves, even when our global interdependence can no longer be ignored or denied. Ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity testify to the dangers of isolationist tendencies, such as blind conservatism, which we may escape only by cultivating and advancing democracy and a shared public life on a global scale, i.e. by developing transnational institutions on strictly empirical and experimental grounds that could assist people in coping with the newly emerging world-order.

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