Global Ethics: Seminal Essays

by Thomas Pogge (Editor), Keith Horton

Overview

Global Ethics, along with its companion volume Global Justice, will aid in the study of global justice and global ethical issues with significant global dimensions. Some of those issues directly concern what individuals, countries, and other associations ought to do in response to various global problems, such as poverty, population growth, and climate change. Others concern the concepts that are commonly used to discuss such issues, such as "development" and "human rights." And still others concern the legitimacy of various phenomena that structure the global scene, such as national borders, the institutions of national sovereignty and self-determination, and attitudes such as nationalism and patriotism.

In recent decades, literature on such issues has started to build up in the Western philosophical tradition. Until now, though, no up-to-date sample of this literature has been available to students and other interested parties. These two books, companion volumes sold separately, fill this gap by providing a sample of the best recent work on these themes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557788702
Publisher:	Paragon House Publishers
Publication date:	03/01/2008
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	632
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Keith Horton’s researches moral and political philosophy, especially the moral implications of world poverty. He has written numerous articles on these themes, and co-edited three books: Ethical Questions and International NGOs (with Chris Roche, Springer 2010), Global Ethics: Seminal Essays (with Thomas Pogge, Paragon 2008), and Globalisation and Equality (with Haig Patapan, Routledge, 2004). He is a co-founder and board member of Academics Stand Against Poverty (academicsstand.org/), an international professional association focused on helping poverty researchers and teachers enhance their positive impact on severe poverty. He is also a co-founder and co-chair of Academics Stand Against Poverty Oceania He is Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Wollongong.

Table of Contents

Preface     xiii
Introduction     xxv
Famine, Affluence, and Morality   Peter Singer     1
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor   Garrett Hardin     15
Just War and Human Rights   David Luban     29
The Moral Standing of States: A Response to Four Critics   Michael Walzer     51
Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs, Part I   Michael W. Doyle     73
Cosmopolitan Ideals and National Sentiment   Charles R. Beitz     107
Is Patriotism a Virtue?   Alasdair MacIntyre     119
Rights, Obligations and World Hunger   Onora O'Neill     139
The Concept of Development   Amartya Sen     157
National Self-Determination   Avishai Margalit   Joseph Raz     181
Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions   Henry Shue     207
Gender Inequality and Cultural Differences   Susan Moller Okin     233
Population: Delusion and Reality   Amartya Sen     259
Individual Responsibility in a Global Age   Samuel Scheffler     291
Who Are We? Moral Universalism and Economic Triage   Richard Rorty     313
Sections 1-3 of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of Living High and Letting Die   Peter Unger     325
The Justification of National Partiality   Thomas Hurka     379
Conditions of an Unforced Consensus on Human Rights   Charles Taylor     405
[section] 15 and [section] 16 of The Law of Peoples   John Rawls     431
The Real Tragedy of the Commons   Stephen M. Gardiner     447
Distributing Responsibilities   David Miller     481
Moral Closeness and World Community   Richard W. Miller     507
"Assisting" the Global Poor   Thomas Pogge     531
"Saving Amina": Global Justice for Women and Intercultural Dialogue   Alison M. Jaggar     565
Index     605

Editorial Reviews

Not only have Moellendorf and Pogge managed to gather all the seminal essays on global justice published in the last thirty years; equally importantly, their introduction sets out, clearly and lucidly, the terms—past, present and future, of this debate. This collection of essays on global justice will undoubtedly become an essential teaching and researching tool. —Cécile Fabre, Professor of Political Theory, University of Edinburgh

If the contributors to these two volumes helpus to understand that poverty, which arguablyposes the gravest threat to human life anddignity today, is theproduct of a deeply inequitious global order, they alsoenable us tothinkthroughwhat our moral entitlements and duties in relation to these unjustglobalarrangements are. These landmarkvolumes will be read,re-read, appreciated, and engaged withfortimes to come. —Neera Chandhoke, Professor University of Delhi

From the Publisher

Pogge and Moellendorf have performed a great service by thoughtfully selecting a set of fundamental philosophical essays, written by distinguished moral and political theorists, and all addressed to the largest moral issues of our time: human rights, national and cosmopolitan identities, destitution, war, and the prospects of a more decent world. If you want to understand global justice—and you should—this is the place to start. —Joshua Cohen, Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Law and Director of the Program on Global Justice, Stanford University

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