Thirteenth Global Studies Conference

Abstract

This paper argues for the importance for both embracing the idea of a global ethic as a concrete normative possibility governing our conversations about how our social and economic lives should be organized, and also the principle that such an ethic is crucial for thinking in a sustainable way about the prospects for a global common good. A global ethical framework, frames the concept of the common good on a the global level, and without it, the idea of a global common good is incoherent and incomprehensible. This presentations considers the question of what it might mean to move from the idea of a global ethic, to what the concept implies for the idea of the common good, to the concrete question of how these principles can serve as the basis of a prophetic critique of the global economy as it currently stands, in order to embrace a prospective ethic of economic justice on the global scale for the sake of the common good of all humanity.