What is globalization?

How is philosophy to cope with it?

Abstract

This paper consists of the following four chapters:
In the first chapter the author describes how money speculation goes beyond any governmental control and devastates the economy in many developing countries, referring to the financial crisis in Asian countries in 1997. In the second chapter he treats the political economy of global migration : how global capitalism mobilizes and destabilizes world population. In the third chapter he summarizes the ambiguous impact of globalization upon nation states in their role and status : denationalization or/and renationalization. The last chapter is dedicated to the actual problems : how we are to cope with negative consequences caused by global capitalism. Taking an important role of international law system for human rights into consideration, the author lays special emphasis on the legal concept of the right to life as the most fundamental human right which should be given priority to other fundamental human rights such as freedom of any sort.
The whole constellation of wealth and poverty is, in principle, structurally determined by global capitalism. The fact that poverty, environmental destruction, epidemic diseases, chronic civil wars and high death rates and other dangers to human life are, on the whole, accumulated in developing countries should not be ascribed to the disability of the people living there because they are through structural violence forced to them. Ethics should widen its perspective and, in correspondence with globalization of sufferings caused by global capitalism, respond to the silenced voices of sufferers in any corner of the world.