Identity, political freedom, and collective responsibility : the pillars and foundations of global ethics / Eddy M. Souffrant.

Eddy M. Souffrant calls for a reassessment of the starting points of moral, social, and political philosophy that takes into account the actual living circumstances of persons living the 21st century.

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Main Author: Souffrant, Eddy M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:Future of minority studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Conceptions of identity
  • Collective identity
  • Introduction
  • Singular and collective identity
  • Linguistic and racial identity
  • Using history and nation to be
  • From regional to global identity
  • Contextual identities
  • Oppressive liberties
  • Emancipatory identities
  • Composite identities
  • Whence does a writer derive her sense of identity?
  • Caribbean philosophy: in guise of a conclusion
  • Liberalism beyond borders
  • Thoughts of informal democracy, moral prescription, globalization and sovereignty
  • Philosophy and contemporary realities
  • David held's cosmopolitan democracy
  • Sovereignty, democracy, and globalization
  • Transnational ethics, multiple appurtenance and anarchy
  • Informal democracy
  • Searching freedoms : political representation in informal democracies
  • Public accountability
  • Inclusion and accountability
  • Toward a collective responsibility
  • Ethics and collectivity
  • Morality, unpredictability, and collective responsibility
  • Morality in an unpredictable world
  • Moral philosophy in the present
  • On being moral
  • Conceptions of collective responsibility
  • Examples of collective responsibility in practice
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Africana modernity, global justice and collective responsibility
  • Introduction
  • Africana cosmopolitanism
  • Allegiance, global ideologies, contemporary directions
  • Radicalism à la mode or outmoded
  • Global justice
  • Collective responsibility
  • Conclusion
  • Index
  • Bibliography.