Constructing Ethical Patterns in Times of Globalization

Acknowledgments ... ix

I Introduction ... 1
1. Background ... 1
1.1 Declaration of Global Ethic in Chicago ... 1
1.2 Hans Küng ... 2

2. About This Study ... 4
2.1 The Main Task ... 4
2.2 Structure and Methods ... 6

PART ONE
THE LIBERAL POTENTIAL OF GLOBAL ETHICS

II Ethics and Religious Faith ... 19
1. Küng's Basic Argument ... 19
2. The Rational Method: From Kant to Schleiermacher ... 30
3. The Positive Method: From Hegel to Heidegger to Jaspers ... 43
4. Exclusivism ... 67

III The Nature of Global Ethics ... 81
1. The Rational Method: Kant Against Consequentialism ... 81
1.1 Consequentialism and Politics ... 82
1.2 Kant Against Consequentialism ... 90
2. The Positive Method: Hegel Against Consequentialism ... 102
2.1 Consequentialism and Sociology ... 103
2.2 Hegel Against Consequentialism ... 113

IV The Content of Global Ethics ... 134
1. The Rational Method: From Kant to Communitarian Liberalism ... 138
1.1 From Kant to Rawls's Theory of Justice ... 138
1.2 From Pogge's Cosmopolitanism to Rawls's Political Liberalism ... 157
1.3 From Habermas's Discourse Ethics to Communitarian Liberalism ... 185
2. The Positive Method: From Hegel to Postmodernism ... 199
2.1 From Hegel to Dewey's Pragmatism ... 199
2.2 From Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach to Walzer's Multiculturalism ... 210
2.3 From Gray's Value Pluralism to Postmodernism ... 250

PART TWO
THE POSTLIBERAL POTENTIAL OF GLOBAL ETHICS

V The Rational Method: The Aristotelian Line ... 303
1. Macintyre and Sandel as Postliberalists ... 303
2. From Homer to Aquinas ... 308
3. Tradition-Constitutive Rationality ... 324

VI The Positive Method: The Augustinian Line ... 348
1. Transcendental Thomism and Dialectical Theology ... 348
2. Schelling ... 359
3. Positive and/or Rational Method? ... 379

VII The Postliberal Approach and Exclusivism ... 390

VIII Encountering Exclusive Difference: A Starting Point for Dialogue ... 403

IX Concluding Remarks ...