global Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/global/ Professor, writer, politician Tue, 09 Nov 2021 08:29:16 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/michaelignatieff.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-Michael-Ignatieff-website-icon-512x512px.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 global Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/global/ 32 32 217957751 Human Rights, Global Ethics, and the Ordinary Virtues https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/2017/human-rights-global-ethics-and-the-ordinary-virtues/ Fri, 10 Mar 2017 09:00:00 +0000 https://wp19.infinhost.net/?p=1474 Although globalization of our economies has not produced globalization in our hearts and minds, the geography of our virtues has changed. We now play out local conflicts before the whole world; and when we justify ourselves, we do it to strangers linked to us by new media. That is what moral globalization means—the steady enlargement of the audiences before which we feel we must justify ourselves.

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