Newspapers daily document the violence that rends our times. Who can account for its relentless pervasion? Why is it also found fascinating or gripping? What is wrong with societies that produce it?Answers are elusive and fragile, renowned ethicist Huber believes. For, even apart from the gross brutalities of crime and war, he finds more subtle and covert violence in childrearing, family intimacy, schools, employee relations, entertainment, and competitive sports. Huber shows how the constant, everyday disregard of human dignity is a root of violence in all spheres, how the inviolability of dignity is the one absolutely necessary premise of countering violence, and how we can become personally vigilant in the service of human dignity. Huber's clear, sweeping creed articulates principles of a planetary ethos, a public theology for rebuilding personal and political culture rent by violence.
Foreword Preface to the American Edition Introduction: Our Daily Violence Form of Violence Responsible Lifestyles The Process of Clarification Violence and Intimacy as Entertainment Human Dignity Needs the Media Changes in the Public Structure The Triumphal March of the Market Principle The Media and the Taste for Violence The Role of Ethics Responsibility for One's Own Actions Principles for a Universalist Ethic Television and the Ban on Images Taking Liberties with Human Dignity: The Example of Sports The Meaning of Sport Principles of Sports Effects of Social Change Ethic of Dignity of Ethic of Interests The Olympic Model or the Jesus Model Achievement and Success Sports and Value of Nature Individuality and Sociability The Society of the Majority and the Minorities: Conditions of Living Together Internal Diversity and External Boundaries Majorities and Minorities Multiculturalism Acknowledging the Stranger and One's Own Identity The Offer of Successful Multiculturalism Coexistence in Cultural Diversity A Look Back at the Gulf War May War Be God's Will? Is There Such a Thing as Inevitable War? Are There Worse Things than War? What Is the Role of Religion? Opposing Options in the Issue of War and Peace The Gulf War and Religion's Loss od Credibility Military Violence after the Cold War Ethical Principles of Peace Peacekeeping Duties of the Community of Nations Peacekeeping Missions Combat Missions The Balkan War and Military Intervention Summary Violence against Humanity and Nature: The Necessity for a Planetary Ethos Human Dignity in Antiquity and in the Christian Tradition The New Turn toward Human Dignity The Transition to Human Rights Accessibility to Reasons and the Power to Bind Ethics, Responsibility, Power The Concept of Power Minimizing Violence Power and Violence Planetary Ethos "Project World Ethos" Human Rights and Planetary Ethos Ethical Dimensions of Human Rights Third Generation of Human Rights The Rights of Nature Relative Universalism Notes Index
