Abstract
The first part of this essay provides a brief summary of this journal’s first editorial, which examined eight needed developments and eight critical contexts for global inquiry. The second part addresses our expanding circle of ethics, which starts with kin but has gradually increased to include tribes, states, nations, and even the world. It is our expanding circle of ethics that has led to a heightened awareness of equality, the product of a noble goal with origins in recent social justice movements. The aim of this essay is to assert that the field has a promising future by including both the local and the global, a position that reflects how our own moral sense has moved beyond kin relations to the entire human family.
Recommended Citation
McCool, Matthew
(2011)
"State of the Field: Human Sociality and our Expanding Circle,"
Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization: Vol. 2
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No.
1,
Article 1.
Available at:
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/rpcg/vol2/iss1/1