The normative ethics of the European Union
The normative ethics of the European Union
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-2346.2008.00688.x
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
4.5
通讯作者：
Manners, Ian
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作者：
Manners, Ian
欧洲联盟过去、现在和将来都是世界政治中的规范力量。这是一个强有力的主张，其关键目标是：促进欧盟研究的规范方法。本文探讨欧盟的规范伦理的范围内的特殊问题的讨论伦理在欧盟外交政策。这将涉及对欧盟规范性权力的道德规范的讨论，即规范一个更加公正的世界主义世界的权力。本文将首先考虑欧盟的“规范性力量”在概念上的创造性努力。然后，它将考虑欧盟在世界政治中促进的九项实质性规范原则：可持续和平;社会自由;协商一致的民主;结社人权;超国家法治;包容性平等;社会团结;可持续发展;和善治。本文将从程序规范伦理学的三种主要方法--美德伦理学、义务伦理学和结果主义伦理学出发，讨论如何判断欧盟的原则、行动和影响。文章最后指出，我们必须根据欧盟的原则、行动和影响来判断欧盟为促进一个更加公正的世界主义世界所做的创造性努力，尽管这些可能有所不同。这三种方法为欧盟提供了应该塑造欧盟在世界政治中的规范性权力的准则：以身作则，合理和伤害最小。
The European Union has been, is and always will be a normative power in world politics. This is a strong claim with a critical aim: to promote normative approaches to the study of the EU. This article examines the normative ethics of the EU within the context of the special issue's discussion of ethics in EU foreign policy. This will involve a discussion of the ethics of the EU's normative power, that is, the power to normalize a more just, cosmopolitical world. The article will first consider the creative efforts of the EU's 'normative power' in conceptual terms. it will then consider the nine substantive normative principles the EU promotes in world politics: sustainable peace; social freedom; consensual democracy; associative human rights; supranational rule of law; inclusive equality; social solidarity; sustainable development; and good governance. The article will then discuss how to judge the EU's principles, actions and impact by using three major approaches to procedural normative ethics-virtue ethics, deontological ethics and consequentialist ethics. The article concludes by arguing that we must judge the EU's creative efforts to promote a more just, cosmopolitical world in terms of its principles, actions and impact, although these may differ. These three approaches provide the EU with maxims that should shape the EU's normative power in world politics: live by example, be reasonable and do least harm.