| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Martinkovič Marcel, PhD., PhDr Mravcová Anna, PhD, Mgr. Podušelová Katarína, PhD., doc. Mgr. Sťahel Richard, PhD., Mgr. Tomakh Dmytro |
| Annotation: | The project brings together the leading interpreters of both Western and Eastern traditions and perspectives so as to forge a cross-cultural philosophical dialogue on the sources and prospects of a truly global political thought. The recent development of critical hermeneutics, emphasizing a reflexive account of cultural and social origins of values by building on the normative resources of interpretation, empathy and dialogue, and similar developments and aspirations coming from within comparative philosophy, will provide the substance of the project investigations. Given that such an undertaking must be reflexively situated in the multiplicity of civilizational and cultural origins, so as to adequately represent today’s global diversity of traditions, the issue arises how to critically assess both their methodological promise as well as the normative substance for their stated goal to reground global political philosophy and the respective much-needed dialogic politics. The project undertakes this assessment and exploration in a cross-cultural yet systematically focused manner. The investigations will engage the shared prospects of a global ethic, and a related dialogic politics based on a multi-polar and multi-origin of moral, religious, and civilizational perspectives. The research partner team based in Taiwan will place particular emphasis on Taiwan’s traditions of liberalism and New Confucianism, especially in how they differ from the perspectives of the Chinese academic community on key issues such as fundamental human rights, universal moral norms, foreign relations, economic aid, global justice, the international community, just war, and related topics. The Taiwanese partners seek to integrate Chinese and Western philosophies, demonstrate a strong interest in Western thought, and maintain a more open attitude toward modern values such as individuality, freedom, and democracy. |
