Globalization: another false universalism?

Throughout human history the idea of moral universalism has repeatedly appe ared, but always in some less than universalistic, and hence morally compro mised form: in the religious imagination and culture, in the ideologies of liberalism and official socialism and in the liberal theory of the state, a nd in the informing worldview of the modern human and social sciences, espe cially anthropology. This discussion mises the question whether, and poses the possibility that, despite all the travails which globalization processe s are unleashing worldwide land perhaps even unknown to, and despite the po litical preferences of; many of globalization's more ardent champions), the present era of advancing globalization may be ushering in a truly historic al moment and change in the history of the human moral imagination. By prod ucing for the first time, no matter how unevenly, a single, interdependent humankind and, in prospect if not yet in actuality, a single worldwide huma n community, globalization processes may be producing an objective, experie ntial basis for the emergence of a genuine and uncompromised moral universa lism: as a successor to, and to transcend, the sequence of selective intima tions and incomplete intuitions of human universality that has hitherto con stituted the history of humankind's moral imagination.