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Justice, based on equality, is a key value in all value systems around the world including: all world religions, non-religious philosophical systems, and world views. But there are obviously manifold interpretations of the content and meaning of justice/equity, its priority related to other values and its implementation. The blood revenge in many tribal traditions around the world is not the same justice as the “new justice” of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount with its message to “love your enemy.” Even respecting this diversity, in international human rights declarations and conventions as well as international law, the global human community has already reached an impressive level of common understanding of justice. The following contribution begins with a brief description of the relationship between global and contextual ethics. Chapters two and three then develop principles of global climate justice and apply them to the current political debate on climate politics. In a similar way, chapters four and five, principles of tax justice are then applied to the current hot topic of tax evasion and tax justice for developing and emerging countries. The author’s background is protestant, reformed theology and ethics; nevertheless, this article does not develop the specific theological and reformed justifications of the various principles and dimensions of justice, and he refers to his other publications for such foundations.
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2010
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3938180196
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