“Reimagining a Global Ethic”, by Michael Ignatieff, opens the first of seven Carnegie Council Centennial Roundtables that form the project “Ethics for a Connected World.” The essay considers the current framework of a “global ethic” in the singular (philosophical considerations of the ethical distribution of global wealth) and “global ethics” in the plural (political solutions by international bodies regarding universally applied ethical principles of individual rights, sovereignty, rules of war, etc…), and examines the conflicts between and within each part of this framework.
