Abstract

As the subtitle of Iso Kern’s newest monograph Der gute Weg des Handelns indicates, the author attempts to develop an “ethics for the present time”. For Kern, such a project implies more than just addressing today’s most pressing ethical problems. An “ethics for the present time” that deserves the name concurrently has to take seriously a trend that is noticeably gaining momentum. In the last decade or so, mainstream Anglo-European philosophy has increasingly come under the pressure to diversify and integrate hitherto neglected philosophical resources from other traditions into its fields of inquiry. Within this movement towards deparochializing philosophy...