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

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 Although Küng is not officially allowed to teach Catholic theology, his priestly faculties have not been revoked.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.

Civil Religion, Civil Society
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