This volume contains eleven essays dealing with the question of how to face the current challenges of globalization. These essays examine topics ranging from global justice, international law, and human rights to ecoterrorism, cultural relativism, and the challenges of autonomy. Many of the essays included here discuss how a comprehensive ethical action is necessary in order to overcome repressive social, political, and cultural obstacles. Most of the essays in this volume were selected from the 2005 Sixth World Congress of the ISUD (International Society for Universal Dialogue) held in Helsinki, Finland. The volume is introduced by Steven V. Hicks, past President of the ISUD, who discusses the issues of cultural conflict and crisis in the aftermath of Nietzsche's philosophy.
Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom by Steven V. Hicks 7
Pt. I Global Justice, Democracy, and Universal Dialogue
1 From a State of War to Perpetual Peace by Edward Demenchonok 25
2 Discourse Ethics, Democracy, and International Law: Toward a Globalization of Practical Reason by Karl-Otto Apel 49
3 Rethinking Global Justice from the Perspective of All Living Nature and What Difference it Makes by James P. Sterba 71
4 Human Rights, Global Justice, and Disaggregated States: John Rawls, Onora O'Neill, and Anne-Marie Slaughter by Alyssa R. Bernstein 87
Pt. II Rethinking Nature: Globalization and the Challenges of Environmental Ethics
5 Beyond Intrinsic Value: Undermining the Justification of Ecoterrorism by Charles S. Brown 113
6 Does Kant Have Anything to Teach Us about Environmental Ethics? by Marc Lucht 127
Pt. III Rethinking Culture: Globalization and the Challenges of Interculturality
7 A Cultural Critique of Cultural Relativism by Xiaorong Li 151
8 Culture, Evil, and Horror by Paul Santilli 173
Pt. IV Rethinking Freedom: Persons and the Challenges of Autonomy
9 Persons: Natural, Functional, or Ethical Kind? by John P. Lizza 195
10 The Subject of Freedom at the End of History: Socialism Beyond Humanism by John Sanbonmatsu 217
Pt. V Conclusion: The Challenges of Globalization - A Non Western Perspective
11 A Rediscovery of Heaven-and-Human Oneness by Keping Wang
