Is a Global Ethics Possible?

Abstract

Globalization has led to greater interdependence among states. Resultantly new challenges have emerged that affect other parts of the world in the same way as they do where they originally happen to originate. Thus there are issues global in nature that require global solutions with ethics to be dealt with properly and effectively. Global Ethics is a field of theoretical enquiry that addresses ethical questions and problems arising out of the global interconnection and interdependence of the world's population. One of the questions in global ethics debate is what ethical issues or claims count to be global and what must be excluded. Despite many tall claims and rising hopes, there are serious challenges to the establishment and application of agreeable and enforceable ethics globally. A good deal of what may be termed as global ethics to regulate international relations and transnational affairs and matters addressing issues of global importance exists in different sources. With national barriers receding and the world getting closer besides men making strides in the technological world, global citizens are faced with new challenges as well as opportunities asking for new consensus on global ethics.