ABSTRACT
The scientific and technological challenges posed today have given rise to a knowledge crisis, a crisis of power, a crisis of law. At the same time, those challenges have raised many questions that must be answered not by politicians, philosophers or experts, but by citizens, by all of us. During the Enlightenment, secularization of society and a boundless belief in Man and his potential were accompanied by the spread of rationalism. United by reason, men sedimented the idea that knowledge and individual experience combine forces in the community, in order to overcome iniquitous and despotic political regimes. In the global ethics, action is local, since the boundaries between science, economics and politics are fading, leading to more mature, participative and aware citizens. The change of paradigm of political and legal life does not stem from the sole awareness of the other who, in the distance, shares with us the globalized world.
