Moral Reflection on Global Crisis: Learning Harmony and Ethics as a Solution

摘要

Civilization has been developed to achieve human ends of human well being as well as fulfillment ofhuman potential as human beings. Civilization is therefore a form of human existence which substantiatesand enriches human life by way of creating ways of survival, tools, economies, human relations,communities, powers, wealth, values, knowledge and wisdom. One can see that in order to warranthuman well- being, civilizational creativities must conduce to good results which refresh and yet sustain,expand and yet conserve, just like human life itself. It would be like a collective life which shouldmaintain its vital health, its organic functionality, its ability to cope with new situations, its willingness tolearn from experience and be intelligent, its openness to future exigencies and its energetic or synergeticdrive to future goals. Since civilizations develop in different loci on earth (and perhaps on some planetsof other solar systems in the universe), they must share some common qualities and goals, which are, tosay the very minimum, the will to fulfill life on collective basis and the will to sustain its identity in acreative process of timely regeneration, cooperation, mutual adjustment and mutual sharing.