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La estructura geopolítica de la interacción entre los Estados-nación en el mundo tecnológico, que ha predominado durante el último siglo, ya no es capaz de hacer frente a los principales problemas de la globalización en marcha. El estado actual de creciente integración mundial en muy diversos aspectos económicos, tecnocientíficos, ambientales y políticos, está requiriendo la formación de una ética de principios universales que reordene y regule la relación entre pueblos y Estados. Este artículo argumenta sobre la necesidad y la factibilidad de construir una ética y una política cosmopolita de la sostenibilidad. Resumen Inglés.: The geopolitical structure of the interaction between State-nations in the technological world, which has predominated during the last century, is no longer able to face the main problems of the globalization. The current state of increasing world-wide integration in very diverse economic, techno-scientific, environmental and political aspects, is requiring the construction of an ethics of universal principles that rearranges and regulates the relationship between peoples and States. This paper argues about the necessity and the feasibility of a cosmopolitan ethics and politics, as well as multinational policies of sustainability. ; The geopolitical structure of the interaction between State-nations in the technological world, which has predominated during the last century, is no longer able to face the main problems of the globalization. The current state of increasing world-wide integration in very diverse economic, techno-scientific, environmental and political aspects, is requiring the construction of an ethics of universal principles that rearranges and regulates the relationship between peoples and States. This paper argues about the necessity and the feasibility of a cosmopolitan ethics and politics, as well as multinational policies of sustainability.

For the predominant anthropocentric tradition of our civilization, nature and living organisms possess only an instrumental value, and that is the reason why they have not been subjects of ethical consideration until recently. Enviromental ethics has arisen with the purpose to surpass the arbitrary and prepotent anthropocentrism, but it has to consolidate itself as an ethics of the human resposibility towards nature. This responsibility implies to be in charge of the already provoked damages as well as to prevent future alterations caused by the huge capacity of our technological power. My argument in this article is that it is necessary to find a mediation between an anthropocentric and a biocentric ethic that allows us to establish a new ethical paradigm feasible morally as well as politically.