Barcelona, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2008, 229 pp.
Political Philosophy

 
The concept of Political Philosophy.- The concept of politics: Action. Power. Political identity.- Political society and civil society: Judgement in politics.- The concept and forms of political ordination.- Means and ends of political ordination: Does end justify means?.-The preference norms of political ordination: The principle of liberty. The principle of equality.- The problem of legitimacy.- The concept and forms of political government: The autocratic government. The democratic government.- The paradigm of pluralism.- The methods of political government: Direct democracy. Representative democracy.- The problem of governance.- The ends of political government: Political ideologies.- The international ordering of peace.- The democratic worldlization.- The concept of citizenship: Intercultural citizenship.- The civil virtues.- The problem of political obligation: concept and theories.- The limits of the political government: Rights and duties of government. Rights and duties of citizens.- Political disobedience
 
 

Barcelona, Kairós, 2007, 222 pp
The Cosmopolitan Identity. The Limits of Patriotism in the Global Era

Cosmopolitans under suspicion.- The global jungle.- Security is patriot.- Liberty is cosmopolitan.- Born to world.- The global nomadism.- The illusion of non-permanence.- Cosmopolitan morality.- Taste in diversity.- The horror of domicile.- At home everywhere.- Stranger at home.- The myth of concentric identitties.- Loyalty to landscape.- The cosmopolitan choice


 
 
 

Barcelona, Ariel, 2004, 189 pp.
Intercultural ethics. Practical reason before challenges from cultural diversity

The necessity of an intercultural ethics.- Checking monoculturalism in ethics.- Empirical grounds: biology of human behavior, neurocognitive capacities; a crosscultural practical reason.- Procedural rules: the reflective method, rule of autonomy, rule of reciprocity, rule of reflexivity.- Intercultural patterns: existing crosscultural values; implicit values within procedural rules; basic intercultural moral patterns.- Limits of any intercultural ethics.- Comparisons are possible


 
 

Barcelona, Editorial Mediterrània, 2002, 349 pp.
In defense of an intercultural ethics. Interdisciplinary reflections

Edited by Norbert Bilbeny with the contribution of considered authors as León Olivé (UNAM), Maria-Jesus Buxó (U. Barcelona), Francisco Fernández Buey (U. Pompeu Fabra). Chapters by Bilbeny focuses: Ehics and interculturality.- Possibilities of dialog between cultures.- Fallacies to avoid in intercultural ethics.

 
 

Barcelona, Gedisa, 2002, 187 pp.
In a common cause. Ethics for diversity

Foreword by Pasqual Maragall.- In a common cause: a debate on integration.- Identities in a pluralistic society.- The constructed shared identity.- Models of democratic social inclusion.- Values in conflict.- The misunderstanding of other.- Relativism and universality in moral judgment. Common values in construction.- Dialog and deliberation.- Denials on diversity.- Interculturality in progress.

 
 
 

Madrid, Tecnos, 1999, 110 pp.
The Socratic protocol of political liberalism

The Socratic liberalism.- Public deliberation.- Moral leadership.- Liberalism as political education.- The communitarian criticism.- Liberal monoculturalism.- A pluralistic alternative: pluralism versus liberalism.

 
 
 

Barcelona, Ariel, 1999, 160 pp.
Democracy for Diversity

To what is democracy good?- Democracy as instrument.- Democratic values.- Democracy is a process.- Democracy in Global Era.- Positive values of globalization.- Negative consequences of globalization.- World-wide democratization in front of Neoconservative globalization.- The rebuilding power of democracy.- Liberty for inclusion.- Equality for difference.- Two cultural models of democracy: the liberal and the pluralistic paradigms.- Democracy without borders.- Learning to listen.

 
 
 

Barcelona, Península, 1998, 140 pp.
Socrates. Knowledge as Ethics

Socrates in the multicultural city.- Socratic dialog at the present time.- The quest for knowledge.- The dialectic method of knowledge.- Virtue as subject of knowledge.- Towards a knowledge of temperance.- Caring of oneself.- Self control.- The constitution of practical knowledge.- Discussing on justice.- The recovery of politics.- Political disobedience.- Eros and research.

 
 
 

Barcelona, Ariel, 1998, 284 pp.
Politics without State. An introduction to Political Philosophy

Why politics?.- The concept of politics.- Political society and civil society.- Why a political order?.- The political order.- Means for political order.- Aims of political order.- Procedural norms for political order.- Preference norms for political order.- The political government.- The methods of democratic government.- Why obedience to political order?.- Citizenship.- The problem of political obligation.- The limits of political government: Rights and duties. Political disobedience.

 
 
 

Barcelona, Destino, 1996, 262 pp.
Europe since Sarajevo. Ethical and Political Key Questions of European Citizenship

Foreword by Xavier Rubert de Ventós.- Towards an European citizenship.- Social Europe at risk.- The coming of the European individual.- Limits of the current European citizenship.- The closing of citizenship.- Patriots.- Pariah.- Samaritans.- The extent of the European citizenship.- A right to belong anywhere.- Proofs for citizenship.- Right and duty to speech.- The extent of citizenship.- The integration of national and foreigners.- A moral concern for European citizenship.- Ethical standards for European citizenship.- The European heritage.- Misery of Eurocentrism.- Identities on struggle.- Europe beyond borders: dual citizenship, transnational Europe.

 

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