Original scientific paper
GLOBALIZATION: A DEFINITION ATTEMPT AND ETHICAL ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
Luka Tomašević
; Faculty of Catholic Theology, Split
Abstract
Nowadays it is much and often spoken about globalization, in scientific circles, in newspapers, reviews and electronic media, but one can hard come to its generally accepted definition, which is most probably due to the complexity of the term. However, we all feel that globalization brings certain new phenomena and conflicts into our lifes, that it brings a kind of imbalance between the global and the local, and changes life style in nearly the whole world. Techonology and informatics have decreased the differences between cultures, nations and states. Yet the decreased differences resulted in deterioration of many traditions and values, so that globalization has brought also a certain dosis of fear into our lifes.
Globalization has brought an imbalance not only into economy, development, market and the ways to it, but also into the areas of culture and pyche. It brings even more new phenomena into the area of human relations, both personal and social. The globalization process also opens some new ethical issues and challenges. Beause of this, in this paper we are trying to suggest a descriptive definition of the term and different approaches to it, but also to point at ethical questions it raises and give some answers to them.
Keywords
globalization; globalization processes; society; development; market; economy; politics; ethics; ethical challenges
Hrčak ID:
139463
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Publication date:
15.1.2002.
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