A Concept of Global Care.

A concept of Global Care provides an ideal of international justice morally superior to liberal ones. First, it is empathetic, not only rationally, but also affectively and culturally. Second, it is anthropologically sounder. Care focuses on webs of human interrelationships in which dependent and interdependent agents find themselves concretely and where each has the possibility and the duty of caring for the needs of some others. The concept of Global Care presented here builds on work in feminist ethics and on Küng's 'Global Ethic' which identifies two principles advocated by all major religions: (1) treating everyone humanely; this principle goes beyond the liberal right to be treated equally, to the injunction of treating others humanely, ie. with care; and (2) the 'Golden Rule' which implies a universality of humankind whereby every human can empathize with any other because all share the same fundamental needs. Individuals, groups, transnational institutions (IOs and NGOs) who are helping others in concrete instances in many different areas, are often examples of care at the international level. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]