Democracy in an Age of GlobalisationSpringer Science & Business Media, 07.07.2007 - 351 Seiten In "Democracy in an Age of Globalisation", Otfried Höffe develops a comprehensive analysis of the demands, which the process of globalization exerts on the political organisations of humanity. The author starts from a diagnosis of the process of globalisation and frees its concept from its economistic narrowing: Globalisation is a comprehensive process which puts new strains on the economies and political systems of the world, the cultural and social structures of peoples. The scope of its challenges demands solutions, which transcend the powers of the classical nation-state. The question central to the book can be formulated as follows: "How can the social, moral and legal achievements of the nation-state be retained while its structure is reshaped to satisfy the requirements of a globalised world?" |
Inhalt
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Public powers | 61 |
Subsidiarity and federalism | 83 |
The demise of the state? | 103 |
From subject to citizen | 131 |
Against a global Leviathan | 223 |
Global civic virtues | 239 |
Institutions and responsibilities | 249 |
Selfdetermination secession and intervention | 269 |
A global social and ecological market | 287 |
The view ahead | 305 |
Bibliography | 313 |
Author index | 337 |
A subsidiary and federal world republic | 157 |
A world order without a world state? | 187 |
The complementary world republic | 209 |
Subject index | 345 |
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Seite 297 - ... prevent."11 Now this is a very rigorous standard to set for morality, and Singer himself is aware how much this will seem to be so to ordinary people, once they become aware of the consequences of strict adherence to that standard. Partly for that reason, he considers a weaker principle to the effect that: "If it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it."12 And he tries, where possible,...
Seite 282 - Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family.
Seite 328 - Europe, an essay towards the present and future peace of Europe by the establishment of an European diet, parliament, or estates.
Seite 131 - If the impulse and the opportunity be suffered to coincide, we well know that neither moral nor religious motives can be relied on as an adequate control.
Seite 201 - ... by the equality of conditions, that coolness of understanding which renders men comparatively insensible to the violent and poetical excitement of arms, — all these causes concur to quench the military spirit.
Seite 64 - Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Seite 201 - Thus the desire of advancement is greater, and the opportunities of advancement fewer, there than elsewhere. All the ambitious spirits of a democratic army are consequently ardently desirous of war, because war makes vacancies, and warrants the violation of that law of seniority which is the sole privilege natural to democracy.
Seite 170 - And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war anymore.
Seite 182 - It is the spirit of commerce which cannot coexist with war, and which sooner or later takes hold of every nation. For, since the money power is perhaps the most reliable among all the powers subordinate to the state's power, states find themselves impelled (though hardly by moral compulsion) to promote the noble peace and to try to avert war by mediation whenever it threatens to break out anywhere in the world.