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The Mundialization of Home: Towards an Ethics of the Great Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

In-Suk Cha
In-Suk Cha*
Affiliation:
Seoul National University
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Abstract

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Like any construction of the human mind, ideologies and utopias are products of reason and social imagination. The human interactions they feed off are nowadays being intensified by processes of globalization. Utopian projects, which are by nature ambitious, consist of dreams of freedom and equality but the voluntarist character of their implementation very often takes them far from their declared objectives. Thus utopia frequently tips over into ideology. In order to survive, utopia has to go through a process of ‘universalization’ that allows ideas from different cultures to develop and mature in contact with one another. By forging bonds between individuals and cultures, this process could define the outlines of a constantly evolving global civil society. Universalization of conceptualizations that transform and motivate us, such as the global inclusivity of human rights, freedom and justice, builds an ethic of peace for the emergence, beyond frontiers, of an extended society such as that envisioned by the American philosopher John Dewey.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 24 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2006

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