From Despotism to Democracy
From Despotism to Democracy: How a World Government Can Save Humanity
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819955580 | 317 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819955580 | 317 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
This book is about how best to respond to existential global threats posed by war and global heating. The stakes have become existential. A strong claim in the book is that we need a world state to save humanity. The book sheds new light on why this is so. The present author has long advocated global democracy. A strong argument against global democracy has been, however, that no state has ever been established without the resort to violence. In this book, the author bites the bullet and advocates a route to global democracy that passes through a phase where a global state is established in the form of global despotism. First despotism, then democracy! But, as the author insists and the reader will find, this is at most something we can hope for. We may fail. The moral importance of failure is thoroughly discussed.