There is only one philosophical question: what could doing philosophy ever look like in times like these?Karel Kosík, Prague 1978

ContentsPrefaceOrientations: Socrates and the Care of the SoulThe Deep Trouble with Europe TodayJan Patocka's Double ConvictionPatocka on Socratic InquiryEnvoi EndnotesPart One: SituationsEssay I: Ethical Standards in International BankingWhy Ethics is Important for International BankingSketching a Philosophical AccountThe Expression "Minimum Ethical Standards"On What Minimal Ethical Standards Are NotMinimum Ethical Standards as PrinciplesMinimum Ethical Standards as Principles for ActionMinimum Ethical Standards as Principles for Right ActionCandidates for Minimum Ethical StandardsOne Minimum Ethical Standard For International Banking Today?EnvoiEndnotesEssay II: Ethical Limits and International LawIndividual Autonomies and the Community of ValuesThe Task of Peace TodayThe Limitations and the Capacities of IndividualsThe Limits of Individual AutonomyReflexive PhilosophiesEnvoiEndnotesPart Two: ResourcesEssay III: Cosmopolitanism and the Good of OthersVirtuesCosmopolitanism as an Ethical VirtueDifficulties with Cosmopolitanism as an Ethical VirtueStoic CosmopolitanismReviewing Late Stoic Texts on OikeiôsisResolving the DifficultiesEnvoiEndnotesEssay IV: Claims, Attitudes, and Inner Peace in Late Stoic CosmopolitanismAn Old StoryA Culture of Peace?Reviewing Late StoicismClaims and Attitudes .Evaluations and ElucidationsThree RemindersA Philosophically Cosmopolitan Attitude?Impulses, Characters, and ReasonsInner Peace.Pulling Things TogetherEnvoiEndnotesPart Three: IssuesEssay V: The Relative and the ObjectiveTruthsRelative ObjectivitiesThe Causal and the LogicalWhat Makes Sentences TrueRelativismsEnvoiEndnotesEssay VI: Realisms and Anti-RealismsTwo SituationsTwo Ways of CountingConstellations and StarsSome BackgroundsModern ContextsEnvoiEndnotesRe-Orientations: The Care of the Soul in Europe Today?Evaluating Patocka's AccountCurrent ContextsThe Socratic ElenchusA Renewed Socratic Ethics Today?Envoi: Returning to EuropeEndnotes