Rowe, Stephen C. --- "Answering the summons: contemporary prospects for global dialogue" [2019] ELECD 2188; in Burdon, Peter; Bosselmann, Klaus; Engel, Kirsten (eds), "The Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 198

Book Title: The Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance

Editor(s): Burdon, Peter; Bosselmann, Klaus; Engel, Kirsten

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 14

Section Title: Answering the summons: contemporary prospects for global dialogue

Author(s): Rowe, Stephen C.

Number of pages: 15

Abstract/Description:

This chapter argues that the summons to a new axial age of Earth Democracy and contact with Third Epoch Confucianism can remind us of the real meaning of democracy, and the distance between the genuinely democratic and the thin ‘liberal’ or procedural political form that is prevalent today - one that is often considered to be synonymous with capitalism. In response, we might re-examine the early Greek and Native American origins of democracy, the possibilities of the early Enlightenment period to which Tu refers, the democracy of the American founders and the vital democratic communities of our own time.