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Standardizing Ethics East and West: The Need to Conform to a One World Standard

Standardizing Ethics East and West: The Need to Conform to a One World Standard
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Author(s): F. Sigmund Topor (Nihon University, Japan)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 28
Source title: Examining Ethics and Intercultural Interactions in International Relations
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): F. Sigmund Topor (Keio University, Japan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2377-3.ch008

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Abstract

A basic element that separates primates from Homo sapiens is language, which serves as a socializing catalyst for interpersonal and intercultural communication. Linguistic rules can be regarded as the ethics of communication. Without such rules, encoding and decoding of communication between a speaker/writer and a listener/reader would be impossible. Etiquette and the social emotion of shame, which have dissimilar connotations in Confucian heritage cultures of the East and Socratic or Judeo-Christian cultures of the West, are examples of moral qualities having different attributes and applications for diverse peoples. Whereas distinctive societies, cultures, and civilizations define morality based on their particular history and culture, including religion, humans everywhere are the same. Thus, drawing on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 Social Contract, the current reality of globalization requires a cultural contract that harmonizes the morals and ethics of Eastern and Western civilizations.

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