New Ethics – New Society or the Dawn of Justice

This collection of essays provides a representative cross-section of the philosophical strands and aspirations present today in the Baltic sea area, particularly Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Most of the papers were presented originally at the conference "New Ethics – New Society or the Dawn of Justice" organised by the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy of the University of Helsinki in Autumn 1997. In order to offer a wide enough picture of the kind of philosophy practised in the Baltic Sea region this collection has been supplement with additional new essays.