Many political problems today, e.g., how to deal with environmental degradation, the proliferation of terrible weaponry, epidemics, cannot be successfully dealt with by any particular state alone. Only international cooperation can succeed. Historically, any number of factors, e.g., language, religion, race, military conquest, have been obstacles to cooperation of this sort. It is incumbent on citizens to do what they can to encourage their societies to remove or at least weaken these obstacles. To do so one need not promote any form of world government. Rather, citizens ought both to work through the institutions of civil society to pardon other people and states for the harms they have caused and to support treaties and pacts that all affected states can reasonably be urged to commit themselves to.Biography, Paul Ricoeur
Bernard Dauenhauer, Stanford University, writing from Ricoeur's philosophy
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