Prologue: The Year of the Metal Rat, the Curse of the Bat and the Search for a New Ethos1 Methodological Introduction 1 Beyond East and West 2 Global Crises in Transcultural Perspective 3 Mutual Learning: Frames of Reference, Discursive Translations and the Method of Sublation 4 Political and Philosophical Discourses: Confucianism and Ruism 5 On Our Way to Global Ethics: A Transcultural Interpretation of Ethics and Morality2 Freedom, Responsibility and the Relationship between the Individual and Society 1 The Thesis of Immanent Authoritarianism 2 Individualism: Universal, Collectivist and Communitarian 3 Relationism and Confucian “Role Ethics” 4 Personhood and the Question of Individual Uniqueness3 Confucian Humanism and Democracy 1 Humaneness (ren) and Humanness (ren xing) 2 The Deontological Character of Confucian Ethics and the Foundations of the Confucian Model of Democracy 3 Confucian Humanism4 Subjectivity, Control, and Digital Technology 1 Problems of Isolation and Digital Tracking Measures 2 Interpersonal Responsibility and the Origins of the Social Credit System 3 Digital Technologies as a New Universalism 4 Cosmotechnology in the Mirror of Technological Plurality 5 Ontology of Digital Objects and Structural Onto-epistemology 6 The Agony of Enlightenment Values and Two Types of Inhumanity 7 Intimacy, Privacy and Isolation5 Restructuring the Axiology of Global Ethics: On a Winding Path from Transcultural to Global Ethics 1 Backgrounds 2 First Steps 3 Sublating RelationismEpilogue: The New Politeia, the Land of Rusting Arms, and the Deliverance from Dark TimesGlossary of Chinese TermsSources and Literature