Global Ethics in a Time of Crises

by Göran Collste (Editor), Torbjörn Lodén (Editor)

Overview

A thought-provoking and essential collection for anyone seeking insight into how we can build a more just and sustainable world.
This book brings together leading international scholars in philosophy, social sciences, and religious studies to reflect on how global problems can be understood and addressed through an ethical lens. As the original scholarship in this volume reveals, the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East; the tensions in East and Southeast Asia and growing global insecurity; the climate crisis and environmental destruction; and the risk for global pandemics and global inequalities all call for action based on globally shared ethical principles and values.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798881800444
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/13/2025
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Göran Collste is emeritus professor of applied ethics at Linköping University, Sweden. He was 2011-2015 President of the European Society of Research in Ethics and is currently expert member of the Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics.

Torbjörn Lodén is emeritus professor of Chinese language and culture at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. He is presently representing the Union Académique Internationale (UAI) at the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH).

Table of Contents

Introduction,
Göran Collste (Linköping University, Sweden) and Torbjörn Lodén (Stockholm University, Sweden)
1. Global ethics as a contribution to peace and security and the strengths and weaknesses of our ethical traditions
Nigel Dower (University of Aberdeen, UK)
2. World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, and Global Ethics
Zhang Longxi (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
3. Realistic Idealism in Political Theory: The Virtue of Creative Resolve
Nicole Hassoun (Binghamton University, USA)
4. Two Conceptions of Liberal Global Toleration
Kok Chor Tan (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
5. Motivating a Global Constitutional Convention for Future Generations
Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington, USA)
6. What can I do and why does it matter?
Olle Torpman (Institute for Futures Studies, Sweden) and Jakob Koranyi (Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden)
7. Developing a geo-citizenship through the global ethics of geoethics
Giuseppe Di Capua and Silvia Peppoloni (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Italy)
8. Planetary ethics in a global technological society
Harold Sjursen (Beihang University, China)
9. “Where you live should not determine whether you live” Global justice and the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines
Göran Collste (Linköping University, Sweden)
10. Spiritual Confucianism for a Better World
Chun-chieh Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
11. What can the Islamic ethical tradition contribute to the discourse on global justice and international solidarity?
Rana Alsoufi (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
12. Universality, Particularity and Peace in the Faith Tradition
Jacob Wirén (Lund University, Sweden)
Index
About the Contributors

Editorial Reviews

Global Ethics in a Time of Crises is a significant addition to the current global ethics literature. Wars, climate change, heightened international tensions and so on, require global solutions if a peaceful world is to be achieved. This book, with authors from a range of cultural, philosophical and religious backgrounds, is a major contribution.” —John Weckert, Emeritus Professor, Charles Sturt University, Australia

“Is it possible to develop an argument for global ethics while at the same time engaging in a dialogue between scholars from different cultural, religious, and philosophical traditions? The essays in Global Ethics in a Time of Crises show that it is possible when aiming at moral contributions to peace, to climate change, or global justice.” —Hille Haker, Richard McCormick S.J. Endowed Chair of Catholic Moral Theology, Loyola University Chicago, USA

“This insightful volume contributes significantly to contemporary ethical discourse. It shows how global ethical approaches can offer new perspectives in times of multiple crisis worldwide by uniting distinguished scholars from diverse continents and ethical traditions to address war, climate crisis and global justice. It is highly inspiring by exploring the possibilities for developing global approaches for ethical thinking that are responsive to cultural plurality and grounded in a diversity of ethical traditions.” —Gotlind Ulshöfer, President of the Societas Ethica – European Society for Research in Ethics and Professor for Diaconic Studies, Ethics and Digitalization at the Protestant University Darmstadt; and extraordinary professor at Tübingen University, Germany

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