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The Intellectual ;

Anti-Antipornography I

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Dr. K-wan Kai-manAssistant Professor

Department of Religion & PhilosophyHong Kong Baptist University

ABSTRACT --

In response to the public outcry over

an unjustified heythe proliferation of pornography, the

I conclude thatnewspaper porn in particular, on April 19, 2000

antipornographythe government issued a document concerning

complex inducedthe Obscene and Indecent Articles Ordinance,

received . Howe ,suggesting a tighter control of pornography .

intellectuals shoulThis caused a public debate, and, as usual,

their anti-antipimany intellectuals took up a critical stance

justifiable in our cagainst the anti-pornography campaign . Inthis paper, I argue that this kind of anti-anti-pornography stance has hardened into a kindof ideology. Many arguments against the anti-pornography campaign are not valid in our

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In Search of a GlobalHans Kung at CAE

byProfessor Gerhold K. Becker

O n 26 September 2000, we at the Centre

G Ifor Applied Ethics were very fortunate

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to host a public lecture by one of the most

Its f'fl c,edistinguished theologians of our time and aninternationally renowned promoter of a

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new global ethic : Professor Hans Kung .

I had first contacted Professor Kung backin 1991, when he had just completed hisprogrammatic thesis on the Project WorldEthos. This book had struck a chord not justwith Christians but also with faithful from Professor Kung limany other religions . I explored with him the was highly demapossibility of a lecture at CAE on the topic of intellectually .this book and he expressed his great interest in interreligious digcoming to Hong Kong as soon as it would be and once again pifeasible for him. Yet, the book kicked off such the world over isa flurry of conferences, lectures, and related is indispensable factivities that his trip to Hong Kong for establishing whad to be put on hold for the time being . Threeyears later the book produced its most tangible

Professor Kresults in form of the famous Declaration of

not date back jus -

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)und the globe and)th physically andreatly promotednd understandingonly that religionwell but also that it-e global ethic and:e .

rk does, of course,990s but began in

which he examined from an explicitly Catholic

Being a Ch)perspective one of the central doctrines of

Christianity aiLutheran theology in the interpretation of Karl

ture and ReligiBarth, the doctrine of justification . And Karl

Millennium, arBarth himself, the great old man of Protestant

of this astontheology, was full of praise of Professor Kung's

Needless to saingenious exposition. Even Rome looked with

which has prsympathy at Professor Kung and his work, and

guidance all ovwhen Pope John XXIII in 1962 called for

not only by Clthe Second Vatican Council, he appointed

search for theProfessor Kung as an official theological

cultural and readviser (Peritus) . Yet, as everybody knows, the

Professor Kiinhoneymoon with Rome did not last forever, and

honorary do(in 1979 Professor Kung had to move out of

scholarly achie ,the Theological Faculty and was appointed

already been pti

professor of ecumenical theology directly

books, the titleresponsible to the university president and the

me as the mosenate. The reason for this development was

Professor KUiProfessor Kung's outspoken critique on the

Passion for Tryauthoritarian structure of the Roman Church andthe intransigence of its officials . Yet, in spite of

The Nee(the frustration and even defamation ProfessorKung had to suffer, he has always remained

At CAEa loyal Christian and a true Catholic in the full

addressed theancient meaning of this term .

now, has beenendeavors and

Professor Kung is very likely the most With great pasprolific writer in contemporary theology and enlist the moraa bibliography covering his publications from in our search fc1955 to 1993 included already over fifty books

and can provide

Does God Exist?,)rld Religions, Litera-'heology For the Third-w titles representativeterary productivity .ofessor Kung's work,;o much theologicalrld, is highly acclaimedbut also by those whoof life in the variousraditions of mankind .l numerous awards andfor his outstandingand various books havebout his work. Of thoset Nowell's book strikestic representation of)logical endeavor : AKung. A Biography .

r Global Ethic

;or Kung once moreit, for so many yearsntre of his intellectualresearch, global ethic .trgued for the need to)f the world's religionsthat is truly universal

ed foundation of a newmnnfinnnrl ohn-n fhn

religions are united in some fundamental moral Intended

beliefs and in a shared vision of life in dignity religions, Profe

and mutual respect . Kung's project of a Global i n a language

Ethic starts from the basic assumption that technical voca

"there can be:

be easily access

declaration begii

No peace among the nations without

before it moves o

peace among the religions .

No peace among the religions without(e,ma Hr MN61 Nku, X- -

dialogue between the religions .

No dialogue between the religions

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without investigation of the foundations

of the religions ."

Professor Kung pointed out that at the

time when he wrote his book, there were hardly

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any documents on a global ethic from world

organizations to which he could refer. Though

there were declarations on human rights, above

The Declar

all the 1948 Declaration of the United Nations,

description of the

declarations on human responsibilities were

the following rath

missing. However, only six years later, the

issue of responsibility has been explicitly

"Our world is

raised in three important international

crisis : a crisis

documents : The International Commission on

ecology, and

Global Governance (1995), The World

grand vision

Commission on Culture and Development

problems, pc

(1995), and the InterAction Council (1996),

political lead

which issued a statement entitled In Search of

foresight, and

Global Ethical Standards.

the commonw

laration of world

ig aimed at a text

)uld do without

and thus would

this purpose, the

iegative statements

ive ones .

ens with a general

tuation and provides

picture :

icing a fundamental

it economy, global

litics . The lack of a

gle of unresolved

aralysis, mediocre

ith little insight or

1l too little sense for

;en everywhere. Tooow r1,a11annPc

together peacefully in our cities because of Without suchsocial, racial, and ethnic conflicts, the abuse every commtof drugs, organized crime, and even anarchy . threatened by clEven neighbors often live in fear of one Professor KU ranother. Our planet continues to be ruthlessly emphasizing tplundered. A collapse of the ecosystem ideology or sulthreatens us .

specific ethic,,philosophies

Time and again we see leaders and substitute formembers of religions incite aggression, Mount, the Q

fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even Discourses of

inspire and legitimate violent and bloody Confucius ." T

conflicts. Religion often is misused for purely Global Ethic

power-political goals, including war . We are morality andfilled with disgust."

religions fromto identify wh

The Declaration moves on to quickly

North and Soucontrast this bleak picture with its new vision of a

is so often obsglobal ethic that can truly unite diverse ethnic and

disputes and it

religious groups in the common goal of a better

In short, this Iworld order. It points out that the world religions

the minimalare in fact already in agreement on some highly

necessary for hsignificant values and standards which can form

against anyonethe basis for a new world order . It emphasizes

also non-beliethat `global ethic' does neither mean a single

in accordanceunified religion beyond all existing religions, nor"the domination of one religion over all others ."

The, Decmoral claim a

"We condemn these blights and declare that human being rthey need not be. An ethic already exists

principle has

consensus in ethic,finer or later will bectatorship." Elsewhere,affirmed this point bybal Ethic is not a newire; it will not make thelifferent religions and)us ; it is therefore noh, the Sermon on the

ie Bhagavadgita, the

dha or the Sayings of

Declaration toward a

aim to invent a newpose it on the variousInstead, it simply aimsons in West and East,y hold in common, butnumerous `dogmatic'self-opinionatedness .

in seeks to emphasizewhich is absolutelyvival . It is not directedrites all, believers andlopt this ethic and live

> centered in the strongprinciple that "everyeated humanely." Thispounded as follows : - without distinction

On this basis, the Declaration identifies The final te,four "irrevocable directives" which must signed by most oguide all life, private and public, economic and "delegates" of thpolitical. The directives demand commitments attended the "Pato :

Religions" held or

Non-violence and Respect for Life

"World Parliament

Solidarity and a Just Economic Order

1893 . The 1993

Religions" (attendTolerance and a Life in Truthfulness convened in ChiEqual Rights, and Partnership Between

September 4, 199_

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A Reportby

Dr. Ip, King-takCAE Acting Director

The First NationalSymposium on 011

Applied Ethics

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Wuxi, China, fromJune 9-11, 2000 .The event wasjointly hosted bythe Institute ofPhilosophy at ~'Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing ; ethics, econorrPhilosophy and Science Department, Southeast mental ethics

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interest of Chinese scholars in the late 1980s . Diagnosis" ; "

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