Wierzbicka, Anna (2015). Karta etyki globalnej w słowach uniwersalnych [A charter of global ethics in universal words]. Teksty Drugie, 2015(4), 257-279.
Abstract:
The Declaration toward a global ethic adopted by the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 1993 and UNESCO’s Earth charter (2000) both hinge on the notion that, in this era of increasing globalization, the world needs a “charter of global ethics”. The author develops this idea, engaging with the Dalai Lama’s suggestion that the “charter of global ethics” should be translated into all the languages of the world. This goal can be achieved if the norms of global ethics are formulated in a Minimal Language based on the universal “alphabet of human thought”, which emerges from several years of empirical study on many of the world’s languages. Two versions of the author’s “charter of global ethics” are printed here – a Polish version and an English one – and it is suggested that they could act as a platform for global dialogue on ethical norms for all of humanity.
More information:
Written in Polish. Revised and translated into English as:
Wierzbicka, Anna (2018). Charter of global ethic in Minimal English. In Cliff Goddard (Ed.), Minimal English for a global world: Improved communication using fewer words (pp. 113-141). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Reprinted as:
Wierzbicka, Anna (2017). Karta etyki globalnej w słowach uniwersalnych [A charter of global ethics in universal words]. In Jerzy Bartmiński, Stanisława Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska, Marta Nowosad-Bakalarczyk, & Jadwiga Puzynina (Eds.), Etyka słowa: Wybór opracowań. Vol. 1 (pp. 523-538). Lublin: UMCS.
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