Many Worlds, Many Theories, Many Rules: Formulating an Ethical System for the World to Come
Abstract There are many ways to speak about the modern world, and many theories setting it apart. I focus on a world facing economic decline and a return to the status-ordering of traditional societies. With republican theory as a backdrop, I show that an updated virtue ethics constitutes an ethical...
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| description | Abstract There are many ways to speak about the modern world, and many theories setting it apart. I focus on a world facing economic decline and a return to the status-ordering of traditional societies. With republican theory as a backdrop, I show that an updated virtue ethics constitutes an ethical system uniquely suiting any society that is significantly status-ordered. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-090a83891a4343dd815e1d57953fa3092022-12-22T01:08:32ZengInstituto Brasileiro de Relações InternacionaisRevista Brasileira de Política Internacional1983-312159210.1590/0034-7329201600202S0034-73292016000200201Many Worlds, Many Theories, Many Rules: Formulating an Ethical System for the World to ComeNicholas OnufAbstract There are many ways to speak about the modern world, and many theories setting it apart. I focus on a world facing economic decline and a return to the status-ordering of traditional societies. With republican theory as a backdrop, I show that an updated virtue ethics constitutes an ethical system uniquely suiting any society that is significantly status-ordered.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-73292016000200201&lng=en&tlng=enInternational relationsInternational Relations Theory |
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| title | Many Worlds, Many Theories, Many Rules: Formulating an Ethical System for the World to Come |
| title_full | Many Worlds, Many Theories, Many Rules: Formulating an Ethical System for the World to Come |
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| title_short | Many Worlds, Many Theories, Many Rules: Formulating an Ethical System for the World to Come |
| title_sort | many worlds many theories many rules formulating an ethical system for the world to come |
| topic | International relations International Relations Theory |
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