To Think Globally – to Act Locally – to Exist Networkly. The Criticism of the Idea of Global Responsibility in an Ethical and Educational Perspective

Abstract

The text presented here discusses an issue of global responsibility, placing it in an ethical and educational perspective. It is indicated that the concept of global responsibility has got at least two formal aspects: theoretical normative and praxionormative one. The author is convinced that we can talk about global responsibility in the strict sense only in the first, theoretical normative meaning in which it functions as a performative utterance. In the praxionormative aspect, in which an emphasis is placed on the practical side of global responsibility, it is stated that practising responsibility on a global scale – with certain exceptions – is unrealizable as a universal ethical rule. Therefore, among others, there is a need to rethink the strategy and objectives of both global ethics and global education at an angle of making them more real and practical.