ABSTRACT

This chapter seeks to understand how political change happens and which instances are to be morally approved and which are to be morally disapproved. A concepts necessary to explore global ethics is one's disposition and action response concerning those that are different from one's own worldview and the shared community worldview in which one lives. Social/political philosophy is an amalgam of concerns that raises the level of ethical focus from the individual level to that of the group. In political philosophy, the creation of governing institutions and the justifications for their operation are the points of concern. States and institutions are social constructions founded on some mix of social justice and common agreement based upon cultural constructions. The statist theory has two forms—the strong and the weak. In the strong-statist theory, one's state represents the highest form of community membership that one enjoys: citizen of a state. The weak-statist view drops the partisan view of personal allegiance in all events.