As complex relationships between different economic and social classes was developed and political dynamic played a pivotal role in determining the fate of classes with less economic clout, ethics became a force that legal system could use as a basis to dispense justice. Immanuel Kant, in his Ethical Philosophy described ethics as what ordinary citizen can experience through daily activity in distinguishing right and wrong. Kant advanced his idea of ethics in the German context in 1770-1780s; hence his view did not reflect a universal perspective of ethics nor did it address the complex notion of what ethical behavior should be in multicultural global world that we live in.
In the 1970s, rising from the French culture, Foucault in Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, viewed ethics as the juxtaposition of the soul, the self, and the relentless desire of the state to force individuals to give up their rights to abide by political will which may not reflect the collective wisdom about right and wrong.
With the evolution of the ethical perspective in our global environment and lack of sufficient independent secular ethicists who could articulate ethics in places like China and the Middle East, globalization through economic activities and inter-dependency continued to expand and manifest itself creating new complexities in defining ethics in socio-economic and political relations within each country and within the global community.
In the 1970s, rising from the French culture, Foucault in Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, viewed ethics as the juxtaposition of the soul, the self, and the relentless desire of the state to force individuals to give up their rights to abide by political will which may not reflect the collective wisdom about right and wrong.
With the evolution of the ethical perspective in our global environment and lack of sufficient independent secular ethicists who could articulate ethics in places like China and the Middle East, globalization through economic activities and inter-dependency continued to expand and manifest itself creating new complexities in defining ethics in socio-economic and political relations within each country and within the global community.
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