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Blame, Repentance, Responsibility
Moudrá, Marie ; Keřkovský, Pavel (advisor) ; Halama, Jindřich (referee)
Blame, Repentance, Responsibility This thesis deals with the issue of blame, repentance and responsibility in terms of accountability for the current state of the world. After being characterized by fundamental concepts such as freedom of human action, ethics, morality, conscience, responsibility, blame and repentance, the thesis focused on the responsibility for the current state of the world. The paper outlines the nature of the current crisis of society from the perspective of two major theologians Hans Küng and Daniel L. Migliore. Next, the thesis deals with the necessity of a common ethical consensus and the project World ethos, which was created within the Parliament of World Religions. Much of the paper is devoted to the principles of this project and the four commandments, which are actually concretization of the "golden rule" and which can be found in most religions and ethical traditions of the world. In the next part this paper presents several areas of daily life, which the world's ethos touches, describes the current situation and needed changes. At the end it focuses on the activities of largest international organization that merits the promotion of the fundamental ethos in international practice - the United Nations, and some of the problems which are currently engaged in the UN....
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