Seeking universalism in ancestral wisdoms: a research proposal
The contemporary world is facing multiple crises. Weakness of democracy, ineffectiveness in reducing global poverty and inequality, climate change and many others challenge our capacity to outline and work on both individual and collective responses. For some decades many thinkers have thought that...
| Altri titoli: | 20th Anniversary Forum |
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Journal of global ethics
Anno: 2025, Volume: 21, Fascicolo: 1, Pagine: 95-101 |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Ancestral wisdoms
B research program B Universalism B polycrisis |
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| Riepilogo: | The contemporary world is facing multiple crises. Weakness of democracy, ineffectiveness in reducing global poverty and inequality, climate change and many others challenge our capacity to outline and work on both individual and collective responses. For some decades many thinkers have thought that the Rule of Law was somehow well settled in our societies and the task of ethics, in a plural, multicultural and unequal world, consisted in reinforcing the potential of fairness and inclusion that the democratic framework would seem to provide. Nowadays, the intensification of the several crises seems to give us reasons to be less optimistic for the capacities of this approach to materialize universal fairness, sustainability, solidarity and inclusion. Departing from Habermas’ point of view about religion in the public sphere, and on Rawls’ perspective on how different ‘comprehensive doctrines’ may coincide on liberal norms, the article calls for a search into the ancestral wisdoms – ancient moralities and worldviews that both indigenous communities and major religions keep and reproduce, which often were despised and excluded by modernity − for universal epistemic and ethical resources that can contribute to inspire people to drive the subjective and objective transformations needed to achieve the goals of fairness, sustainability and human realization. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-9634 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Journal of global ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17449626.2025.2501319 |
