We are very pleased to deliver this Dialogue and Universalism (D&U) issue, which begins a series of issues displaying the International Society for Universal Dialogue’s recent legacy. This legacy is focused on the theme PHILOSOPHY IN AN AGE OF CRISIS. CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS. It is a participative philosophical attitude and a direct or implicit concern about the condition of the human world that unite the published papers. The thematic diversity of the released essays is enormous. Their authors are situated in different cultures and socio-political situations, and use different styles of philosophizing. The papers present research carried out in various domains of philosophy, founded in different philosophical schools and traditions. Apart from hateful and insulting ones, different views and opinions have been freely admitted—also inconsistent with those proclaimed in the International Society for Universal Dialogue (ISUD) constitution and co-forming the D&U mission. Dialogue and Universalism and the International Society for Universal Dialogue are proud to share these intellectual achievements—an impressive body of papers referring to problems of major concern for a civilization which is dramatically changing before our eyes. The collection of papers gathered under the heading PHILOSOPHY IN AN AGE OF CRISIS. CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS is not merely proceedings of the 12th ISUD Congress held in Lima, Peru, in July 2018, although it is closely connected with that event. The main aim of these D&U publications is to preserve the intellectual achievements of the congress. But, first, the published papers significantly differ from the versions presented at the congress. The former present the full considerations while the latter were their much shorter versions. Secondly, the considerations in each paper have been modified twice: in result of discussions at the congress, and after their peer-reviewing by D&U reviewers. Thirdly, D&U—following the ISUD core mission—respects in its publication policy the ideas of openness and non-exclusion. Therefore, all the scholars who wished to participate in the thematic enterprise PHILOSOPHY IN AN AGE OF CRISIS. CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS have been welcome and their papers accepted if they were found to meet all the criteria required by D&U. In result, authors who are not ISUD members and who were not in Lima at the ISUD congress also have been admitted. This way, all the 2019 D&U issues will become part of the wide and open ISUD legacy. The very theme of our project is intentionally open: its different interpretations, although related to each other, are admissible. The title PHILOSOPHY IN AN AGE OF CRISIS. CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS can be recognized as proclaiming two messages. First, it puts emphasis on the fact that crisis is a dominating feature of the today human world, and as such should be the object of our highest concern. Secondly, it says that philosophy is connected with the crisis of the human world. Despite their apparent obviousness, both the messages are too short to be unambiguous, and as such they require at least a sketchy and provisional clarifying. So, it is here proclaimed that philosophy has a vital participative function: it takes part in humankind’s existence in every epoch not only by reflecting its spirit and revealing its foundation. It also assimilates the most pressing human problems of every age as its own. Philosophy as a participative field of reflection reveals, interprets, and normatively evaluates the problems of the present human world. The ISUD and D&U put emphasis on the participative role of philosophy again and again, following the views of numerous thinkers over all eras and opposing those opinions which limit and marginalize philosophy’s role. The causes initiating today’s civilizational crisis are differently identified. However, it is commonly perceived that the crisis has already spread over the entire human world—it has invaded all geographical regions and civilizational spheres—socio-political, economic, ecological, cultural, also the spheres of individual as well as collective human everyday life and personal existence. Our time of turmoil has generated a combustible mixture of threats: arrogance, irresponsibility and the complete dereliction of duty by the ruling classes in many countries in the world, threats to security, global threats to national and international peace, threats to social order, increasing inequalities, the degradation of the natural environment. In effect, fear, a sense of insecurity and suffering are our common companions. However, our era has also produced many technological inventions which for better or for worse have changed human existence and the face of the Earth. All the aspects of the present global condition, especially the causes of the crisis, need be urgently recognized and diagnosed— also on the highest level of generality, in their very foundations, that is, by philosophy. We may at least tentatively adopt—in a non-orthodox Marxian style—that the very fundaments of today’s civilizational crisis lie in the political and social spheres. Taking this assumption into account, D&U has decided to devote the first 2019 D&U issue to social and political problems. The help of ISUD members, and especially its board directors, in realizing this thematic project and then the D&U publication series cannot be overestimated. We would like to express our gratitude to all of them. Special thanks go to Professor Charles Brown, the former ISUD Chair, and Professor Emily Tajsin, the Review Panel Coordinator. We are also thankful to the hosting institution, the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and the Site Coordinator, Professor Victor J. Krebs.