ABSTRACT
Transnational elites have a specific potential to shape the processes of globalisation for the better or for the worse. According to a philosophical and normative elite theory, this specific potential involves a specific responsibility. Those who have the power to transform the social structure of whole polities and economies by obtaining an elite position bear a greater responsibility than the average citizen. On the national state level this responsibility can be developed in terms of the common good leading to a set of duties derived from it. In the author’s project ‘Transnational elites and their duties of the common good. Ethical claims on political, financial and cultural elites in the processes of globalisation’ the author discusses whether a similar responsibility and corresponding duties of the common good can be stated on a transnational level as well.
