By the whole Enlightenment tradition, but not only that: by older traditions of care, solidarity, mutuality, of respect for human life and compassion for human suffering.
Petr Pithart, president of the Senate in the Czech Republic, described it this way: "Why do we care about solidarity between Europe and the United States?
Mankind's universal values of love, compassion, solidarity, caring and tolerance should form the basis for this global ethic which should permeate culture, politics, trade, religion and philosophy".
Sandel (2009) has argued, by contrast, that making a profit from of the needs of vulnerable individuals, like children or old and frail people is morally repugnant, and undermines basic communal solidarity and caring.
He likes to recall that while the last two decades have seen unprecedented levels of economic globalization and a revolution in communication that our world of today could not have imagined just 20 years ago, the globalization of solidarity in caring for those less fortunate simply does not exist.
We just hope that there is a lot of care and solidarity after something like this.
"European solidarity" means others caring for them after they have wasted everything under their control.
We want to see communal care and solidarity.
Under the Anglo-Saxon type of capitalism individual responsibility plays a more important role than in the Rhineland, with its organised care and solidarity.
Contrary to recent accounts of the ways that negative emotional responses can cause inaction in the face of climate change, this paper argues that creative public participation methods can generate positive emotions such as hope, responsibility, care, and solidarity.
