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(1986) Steppingstones toward an ethics for fellow existers, Dordrecht, Springer.
To men like Albert Schweitzer's fellow Alsatian, though unknown to him, Alfred Kastler the belief that, since "modern "nationalist" man" is obsolete (Norman Cousins), the future of post-modern man depends on the development of planetary solidarity before it is too late would be almost a truism.210 But very few people have come to think and feel in terms of "we humans", rather than "we Americans' or "we Soviet Russians", whenever a major international crisis arises. In expressing loyalties, the closest rather than the most comprehensive community usually takes precedence, so that world citizenship remains a vague idea as long as there is no world city in which to practice it.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4337-7_15
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Spiegelberg, H. (1986). Toward global solidarity, in Steppingstones toward an ethics for fellow existers, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 283-287.