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Spre o cartă etică universală
Towards a universal ethic charter

Author(s): Irina Zlătescu
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Social Norms / Social Control
Published by: Institutul Român pentru Drepturile Omului
Keywords: universal ethics charter; ethic norms; United Nations;

Summary/Abstract: At a time of great challenges of science and technology, to resort to this postulate is a prerequisite with solving the complex problems raised by the management of progress in the field, for the benefit of the human being, of all human beings, not to their detriment, or the detriment of some of them. The juridical thinking will not be able to give the correct solutions except within the logic of this ethic postulate, just the same way that a regulation, as welcome and correct as it may be in a certain field, will not be implemented effectively without the large endorsement of certain ethic norms characterizing those tasked to apply it. In this context, a number of questions may be asked: is the adoption of a universal ethics charter necessary and possible? If so, on what conditions, and what are the previous stages to be gone through? The plea in favour of such a charter is accompanied by a number of considerations advancing landmarks in the approach to this target.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 18-20
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Romanian