A globalização como desafio ético institucional

Abstract

This article deals with the tecnological, social, political, legal, financial transformations and the dangers threatening the wlole ecological system associated to the so-called "globalization", wich, for its part, is described as a pluridimensional phehnomenon. One of the major problems of globalization seems to be the process of extreme detraditionalization, substituting traditional attitudes and values by posttraditional conducts and values which, in regard to their contents, are extremely ambivalent. In opposition to the proclamations of a new individual morality which, in fact, are totally irrealistic, we will defend the idea that what is really needed is the reinventation of an institutional morality, which determines certain objective conditions of individual actions by encouraging specific incentives and consolidating conditions of reciprocity of the advantages and interests of all the participants of the social and commercial relations. On account of the pluralization, fragmentation and even destruction of the traditional ethical convictions, globalization itself complicates the project of reinventing institutional ethics. Nevertheless the efforts in this direction are necessary, for they are the only instrument to limit the dangers in herent to globalization. This thesis will be confirmed by an analysis of the alarming phenomenon of the actual increase of juvenile criminal it yalIover the world.