European Centre for Social Ethics (ECSE)

The European Centre for Social Ethics aims to realize research projects and studies on European culture and politics in a cooperative network among various international institutions, not limited to European ones. The main issues are the following:

• leading values of European culture, in particular the conceptions of freedom, justice, rights and history
• the idea of personal and political liberty in modern thought
• Enlightenment ethics and contemporary ethics as the characteristically European morality
• the principle of respect for persons in the contemporary debate: rights, migrations, environment, relations between states, justice and equality across borders
• challenges stemming from global politics and the role of Europe
• principles of sustainable development and the issue of public decision-making
• forms of development, and the future of the European Union
• the social role of public opinion, and of literary and artistic culture in the European social context