Principles Of A Global Ethic

SR No.: 269592
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Total Pages: 8
Language: English
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1993 Parliament of the World's Religions , زازا أنا ماذا We are persons who have committed ourselves to the precepls and practices of the world's religions. We confirm that there is already a consensus among the religions which can be the basis for a global ethic-a minimal sunduinental consensus concerning binding values, irrevocable strindards, and fundamental moral rillilmules. Today we possess sufficient economic, cultural, and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order. But old and new ethnic, national, social, economic, and religious tensions threaten the peaceful building of a better world. We have experienced greater Iechnological progress than ever before, yet we sec that world-wide poverty, hunger, death of children, unemployment, misery, and the destruction of nature have not diminished but rather havc.increasca. Mamy peoples are threatened with economic ruin, social. disarray, political marginalization, ecological catastrople, and national collapse. 1. No new global order without a new global ethic? We women and incn of various rcligions and ;**"zions of Earth, therefore address all people, religious and non-rcligious. We wish to cxpress the following convictions which we hold in common: We all have a responsibility for a better global orlier. * Our involvement for the sake of human rights, freedom, justice, peace, and the preservation of Earth is absolutely necessary. . In such a dramatic global situation humanity necals il vision of peoples living peacefully together, of cthmic and ethical groupings and of religions sharing responsibility for the care of Earth. A vision rests ori lopes, goals, ideals, standards. But all over the world these have slipped from our hands. Yet we are convinced that, despite their frequent abuses and failures, it is the communities of faith who bcar a responsibility to demonstrate that such hopes, ideals, and standards can be guarded, grounded, and lived. This is especially true in the modern state. Guarantees or frecciom of conscience and religion are necessary but they do not substitute for binding values, convictions, and norins which are valid for all lumans regardless of their social origin, sex, skin color, language, or religion. * Our different religious and cultural traclitions niust not prevent our common involvement in opposing all Torins of inhumanity and working for greater humaneness. * The principles expressed in this Global Ethic can hic affirmed by all persons with ethical convictions, ...cther religiously grounded or not. * As religious and spiritual persons we base our '.'s on an Ultimate Reality, and draw spiritual power imone hope thercsrom, in trust, in prayer or ineditation, in word or silence. We have a special responsibility , for the welfare of all humanity and care for the planet Earth. We clo not consider ourselves boller than other. women and men, But we trust that the ancient wisdom of our rcligions can point the way for the future. .. We are convinced of the fundamental unily of the human family on Earth. We recall the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations. What it formally proclaimed on the level of rights we wish to confirin and deepen here from the perspective of an ethic: The full realization of the intrinsic dignity of the human person, the inalienable freedom and cquality in principle of all humans, and the necessary solidarity and interdependence of all humans with : cach other. On the basis of personal experiences and the burclensume history of our planet we have learned * that a better global order cannot bc crcated or enforced by laws, prescriptions, and conventions ! alone; Aster two world wars and the end of the cold, war, the collapse of fascism and nazism, the shaking to the foundations of communism and colonialism, humanity has entered a new phase of its listory. -3