How Might We Live? Global Ethics in the New Century

This volume looks outward to the new century and to the dynamics of this first truly global age. It asks the fundamental question: how might human societies live? The contributors believe that there is nothing more political than ethics. By exploring in the newest context some of the oldest questions about duties and obligations within and beyond humanly constructed boundaries the essays help us ponder the most profound question in world politics today: who will the twenty-first century be for?