Ethical Conflicts in American Imperial Hegemonic Politics
The hegemonic politics of the American empire rests on four interlocking pillars:the philosophy of prag-matism as its value foundation,superb capital operation ability as its material foundation,comprehensive inter-national strategy and tactics as its operating mechanism,and flexible use of military means as its security guar-antee.However,each of these four methods contains fundamental ethical conflicts between motive and effect,morality and utilitarianism,selfishness and axiom,and righteousness and evil.As the world today faces pro-found changes of a kind unseen in a century,these deep ethical conflicts within American imperial hegemonic politics have become increasingly prominent and intensified.This indicates that the value foundation of the A-merican empire's cultural,economic,political,and military operations is crumbling,and a new model for hu-man progress that challenges,counteracts,and surpasses the global ruling order of the American empire is be-coming a historical necessity for the future development of human society.