The challenges of globalization : rethinking nature, culture, and freedom / edited by Steven V. Hicks and Daniel E. Shannon.

Papers presented at the 6th World Congress of the International Society for Universal Dialogue, held in Helsinki, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From a state of war to perpetual peace / Edward Demenchonok -- Discourse ethics, democracy, and international law : toward a globalization of practical reason / Karl-Otto Apel -- Rethinking global justice from the perspective of all living nature and what difference it makes / James P. Sterba -- Human rights, global justice, and disaggregated states : John Rawls, Onora O`Neill, and Anne-Marie Slaughter / Alyssa R. Bernstein -- Beyond intrinsic value : undermining the justification of ecoterrorism / Charles S. Brown -- Does Kant have anything to teach us about environmental ethics? / Marc Lucht -- A cultural critique of cultural relativism / Xiaorong Li -- Culture, evil, and horror / Paul Santilli -- Persons : natural, functional, or ethical kind? / John P. Lizza -- The subject of freedom at the end of history : socialism beyond humanism / John Sanbonmatsu -- A rediscovery of heaven-and-human Oneness / Keping Wang.