The papers published in the present volume were originally presented at the Eighteenth International Conference of Philosophy which took place from 20th until 27th of July 2006 in the picturesque city of Kavala and in the town of Abdera, the birthplace of the famous philosophers Democritus, Protagoras and of other important Greek thinkers ( Hecataeus etc.) in the Northern Greece.

After the Conference the papers presented underwent a process of amendment which reflected the results of fruitful discussions during the proceedings. The papers are presented in alphabetical order according to the author and all of them deal with the main theme of the Conference, i.e. values and justice in our global era.

The papers deal with the problem of justice in relation to democracy and cosmopolitanism in a globalizing era, with freedom and justice, especially distributive justice, in a cosmopolitan global environment, with the relation of justice to entitlement, rights and self-determination, with the problem of value pluralism in globalization, with personal and individual values in contradistinction to the value of the state, with thick and thin moral concepts and the source of morality and with aesthetic values as exemplified in ancient monuments (palace of Knossos).

The articles in this volume should be studied in conjunction with the papers contained in the other two volume on the philosophy of values and justice, also published by Ionia Publications (Values and Justice in the Global era, Vol. II., Ionia Publications, Athens 2007 and AΞIEΣ KAI ΔIKAIOΣYNH ΣTHN EΠOXH THΣ OIKOYMENIKOTHTAΣ, ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΙΩΝΙΑ, ΑΘΗΝΑ 2007).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

		PREFACE	9
1.	JAMES A. ANDREWS	ARETE, COMPETITIVE AND NOT	11
2.	MIRIAM N. BYRD	PLATO'S TWO CITIES IN THE REPUBLIC	19
3.	NEBOJSA ST. DAVCIK	ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND FUTURE BUSINESS PRACTICE	32
4.	THOMAS L. DYNNESON	PERICLES' VISION FOR DEMOCRACY AND CIVISM	42
5.	HALLVARD J. FOSSHEIM	DIALECTIC AND VIRTUE: ON TWO IDEALS IN PLATO'S DIALOGUES	51
6.	PAUL GAFFNEY	IDEAL COMPETITION: THE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF GLOBALIZATION	64
7.	MICHAEL HOPPMANN	DECISION THEORY IN JOHN RAWLS' A THEORY OF JUSTICE	74
8.	KIRK W. JUNKER	THE HIDDEN VALUES IN THE LAW OF GLOBAL EMISSIONS TRADING	91
9.	VALENTIN KALAN	ARISTOTLE'S UNDERSTANDING OF JUSTICE AND THE DIALECTIC OF VALUES IN OUR GLOBAL ERA	108
10.	KOSTAS KOUKOUZELIS	REPUBLICAN COSMOPOLITANISM: FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY	125
11.	LIA MELA	UNIVERSALITY OF VALUES AND THE PLURALISM OF FORMS OF LIFE IN JOHN RAWLS'S WORK	138
12.	PAVLOS E. MICHAELIDES	ETHOS AND TECHNE IN THE LIGHT OF DIKE: A HEIDEGGEREAN INTERPRETATION	148
13.	JEREMIAH REEDY AND THOMAS D. SULLIVAN	IS JUSTICE A VALUE OR A VIRTUE?	162
14.	SCOTT RUBARTH	FOUCAULT, FREE SPEECH AND THE ANCIENT CYNICS	173
15.	HIDEYA YAMAKAWA	CYNIC JUSTICE	183
		INDEX OF NAMES	193