GLOBALISATION AS ETHICAL CHALLENGE.

This articles aims at examining the consequences of the profound transformation of contemporary social reality often phrased as "globalisation." According to its author although globalisation means the global reach of modernization, it also implies a great ethical challenge and a new moral predicament: whether living under the globalized conditions we can find new ways to reforge the human unity and the solidarity of mankind. The article makes clear that the continuing uncontrollability of the already global network of mutual dependence and `mutually assured vulnerability', which foster the "negative solidarity', do not increase the chance of such unity. Nevertheless the author concludes that at no other time the search for common humanity, and the practice that follows such an assumption, has been as urgent and imperative as it is now. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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