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  • Individual emergence as ethical versus ethnical problems
    Mulej, Matjaž ; Ženko, Zdenka ; Kajzer, Štefan
    Many social groups emerge as ethnical groups and tend to be different than others that emerge individually. History is full of violence in mutual relations of these groups. Are these conflicts based ... on ethnical or ethical attributes? There is a long set or system of criteria that makes a group an ethnic entity. Most of them can be seen as demonstrations of ethical criteria of right and wrong that changes in time, area and conditions. If we take the case of a mid-sized city in Central Europe, such as Maribor, Slovenia, we can see that its pupulation has belonged to five nations in one person's life span in the 20th century. Each nation established its own ethical regulations. One may conclude that ethnical definitions cover the ethical ones to make the individuality of the group organized. Conflicts result from these efforts. It is ethics of interdependence that expresses the (dialectical) systems thinking. This may make individual emergence of ethnical groups individual and eliminate serious conflicts. (Inter)national conflicts are ethical, not ethnical problems. A group, e. g. organized as a political party, seizes and receives title to impose the selection of the dialectical system of viewpoints to be found essential. If this is done in a biased way, it leads to specific benefits of detriments. Take for example the cases of the English and Irish in Northern Ireland, English and French in Canada, Serbs and others in former Yugoslavia, in which ethical choises are given the label of ethnical ones. The consequence is, quite freuquently, conflict rather than agreement. Let us try to think more sistemically!
    Type of material - conference contribution
    Publish date - 2007
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 9195804