Ethics and Global Politics

Abstract

Most of today’s global challenges have ethical relevance, either because they emerge from the perception of unethical policies (for instance, welfare and the gap between the rich and the poor or the status of women) or because, although responding to need, we can consider more or less ethical avenues for dealing with them (for instance, environment and duties regarding nature or peace and conflict). Kant has placed a significant emphasis in his writing on the relation between ethics and law, and papers in this panel focus on this relation in order to illuminate it further or to assess its relevance for currently urgent political issues.