Globalization and a Normative Framework of Freedom

• Authors: Ladislav Hohoš
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The author considers the question of whether or even what normative structure of social order is able to encourage the advancement of the measure of positive liberty in the process of globalization. Related to this is the issue of the insufficiency of guarantees provided by orthodox liberalism for human self-determination. The author considers possible scenarios as to the way in which an elite cosmopolitan minority, profiting from globalization and feeling no responsibility for the majority left to its own fate, would pursue its own interests. The ideas of Ralf Dahrendorf concerning the global rule of law in the name of freedom and the need for international law are referred to. Globalization is occurring just as Marx intuitively predicted: capitalism becomes the bearer of hidden immanent self-destructive mechanisms. In conclusion, the author's hypothesis is that the new era of law in the 21st century will ensure that certain civilization legal norms become natural or customary.

Keywords

EN

Globalisation; human self-determination; capitalism; positive freedom; rule of law

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 42-53

Dates

published

2007-06-01

online

2007-06-20

Contributors

author

Ladislav Hohoš

• Department of Philosophy and History of Philosophy Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Gondova 2 818 01 Bratislava Slovakia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10023-007-0005-x