This one world needs one basic ethic. This one world society certainly does not need a unitary religion and a unitary ideology, but it does need some norms, values, ideals, and goals to bring it together and to be binding on it.
Hans Küng
Towards a Global Ethic
Topic: Interfaith Pathways
“It has become increasingly clear to me in recent years that the one world in which we live has a chance of survival only if there is no longer any room in it for spheres of differing, contradictory and even antagonistic ethics. This one world needs one basic ethic. This one world society certainly does not need a unitary religion and a unitary ideology, but it does need some norms, values, ideals, and goals to bring it together and to be binding on it.”
Hans Küng (born 19 March 1928) is a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author. Since 1995 he has been President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic (Stiftung Weltethos). He is notable for his rejection of the doctrine of papal infallibility. Although Küng is not officially allowed to teach Catholic theology, his priestly faculties have not been revoked. In 1979, he had to leave the Catholic faculty, but remained at the University of Tübingen as a professor of ecumenical theology, serving as an emeritus professor since 1996.
Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic
Gomez-Ibanez, Daniel. “The Global Ethic – How It Came to Be.” The Interfaith Observer, Paul Chaffee, 15 Apr. 2018, www.theinterfaithobserver.org/journal-articles/2018/4/14/the-global-ethic-how-it-came-to-be, [Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic By Hans Kung].
Hans Küng
Resources
- The Global Ethic – How it Came to Be by Daniel Gómez-Ibáñez (April 15, 2018)
- Declaration Toward a Global Ethic (4 September 1993 Chicago, U.S.A.)
- Article in Anglican News: Religion scholars release declaration of rights
- The 2018 Parliament of the World's Religions
- Towards a Global Ethic: Initial Declaration
- TOWARDS A GLOBAL ETHIC (An Initial Declaration) THE DECLARATION OF A GLOBAL ETHIC
- Celebrating 25 Years of the Global Ethic, The Parliament of the World's Religions 2018
- The Global Ethic Project Website
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Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic By Hans Küng
The Global Ethic idea dates back to the 1980s and the Swiss theologian Hans Küng, who has since then been deeply engaged with the world’s religions and questions of how the people of the world can successfully live together. Back in the 1980s this was already clear to him:
In his book Global Responsibility, In Search of a New World Ethic, Hans Küng first formulated the Global Ethic idea as we know it today : all world religions and philosophical teachings share fundamental values and moral concepts. For example, the “Golden Rule” and the need for humane treatment of each other can be found in many traditions, as well as values such as non-violence, justice, truthfulness and partnership. Küng’s message: this increasingly globalized world needs a global ethic.
In the following decades Hans Küng and others further developed research projects and publications about world religions and global ethics issues, and demonstrated their relevance to living together in our society. Other milestones in the development of the Global Ethic project were the adoption of the Declaration Towards a Global Ethic at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1993, as well as the founding of the Global Ethic Foundation in 1995.
– The Global Ethic Project Website [Hans Küng [https://www.global-ethic.org/the-global-ethic-project/].
Towards a Global Ethic – An Initial Declaration
The historic document, Towards a Global Ethic – An Initial Declaration, was one of the most significant outcomes of the 1993 Parliament of the World’s Religions. More than 200 scholars, religious leaders, and theologians from the world’s religions were consulted during a two-year period. During the Parliament itself, the declaration was signed by over a hundred religious and spiritual leaders from all over the world.