Hope for a Global Ethic: Shared Principles in Religious Scriptures

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Baha'i Publishing Trust, 2005 - 231 pagini
In a groundbreaking book that calls on the world's religions to look at what they have in common, author and scholar Brian Lepard offers hope to a world community that has become dangerously fractionalized by economic, social, religious, and political differences. In Hope for a Global Ethic Lepard cogently argues that different societies have much more in common than they might otherwise think, beginning with a profound historic and lasting belief in religion, and that our fearful and often suspicious view of other people may be overcome by exploring what is shared in these religions. Hope for a Global Ethic moves significantly beyond ideology to discuss the values that all people have shared through the faiths of the world. It is these values that offer hope in our fearful, disordered, and terrorized world.

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1 Is There Hope for a Global Ethic?
3
2 Unity in Diversity 223
21
3 The Golden Rule and the Importance
33
Good Deeds
35
4 Personal Virtues and Moral Duties
43
5 The Equal Dignity of All Human Beings
65
6 Human Rights
73
7The Right to Life Physical Security
81
10A Trust Theory of Government and Limited State
113
Sovereignty
115
OpenMinded Consultation
125
12Respect for Governments and Law
135
13 Peace Justice and Respect for Treaties
143
International Law
145
14The Legitimate Use of Force
157
15Intervention to Rescue Human Rights Victims
175

Subsistence
83
8The Right to Freedom of Religion
89
and Conscience
91
9The Status of Women
103
17 The Prospects for a Global Ethic
191
Bibliography
223
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Despre autor (2005)

Brian D. Lepard is a Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska and a specialist in international human rights. A graduate of Princeton University and the Yale Law School, he is the author of the internationally acclaimed Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention: A Fresh Legal Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles in International Law and World Religions. He has also served at the United Nations Office of the Baha'i Community in New York. He and his family live in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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