Ethics+Kl

Ethics, thought attempting to embrace difference, sees a totalizing human sphere where only one perspective is correct- this is seen prior to politics

(Mark F.N. FRANKE, University of Northern British Columbia, 2K, European Journal of International Relations, 6(3): 307-33, SAGE publications, “Refusing an Ethical Approach to world Politics in Favour of Political Ethics”)

“One may ask……..ethos of critique.”

Obsession with ethical human rights has lead to a focus on coercion, condemnation, punishment, and military intervention. Destructive acts such as carpet bombing have been justified in the name of human rights.

David Chandler, senior lecturer in international relations at the Centre for the stuffy of Democracy, University of Westminster, “Rhetoric without responsibility: the attraction of ‘ethical’ foreign policy” British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 5, No. 3, August 2003, pp. 295-316

“This association of…….acquiescence and passivity.”

To challenge the conception of ethics we must break form the idea that a global human perspective is prior – this challenges the idea that a particular ethic is appropriate for all. Seeing that these questions are unanswerable allows us to see problems as primarily political – this allows for true judgment and responsibility.

(Mark F.N. FRANKE, University of Northern British Columbia, 2K, European Journal of International Relations, 6(3): 307-33, SAGE publications, “Refusing an Ethical Approach to world Politics in Favour of Political Ethics”)

“To place this…..obscures such intent.”