Abstract

Should the golden rule be applied only at the level of individual ethics or also in political, not to say international relations? How is it observed in today’s Europe, in the Europe of the 21st century, in particular at the level of relations between civilizations and world religions? Is it possible to harmonize the golden rule and the missionary spread of one’s own religion based on the identification of one’s own truth with the Truth? If applied to the global level, does Kant’s categorical imperative support war or peace? World ethos and global ethics. The minimum common denominator in ethics as the basis for alliances between civilizations: an ethical fraction line. The European golden rule as the European rule of the golden mean