Global Ethics: Seminal Essays (Paragon Issues in Philosophy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557788707 ISBN 13: 9781557788702

Publisher: Paragon House, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

THOMAS POGGE received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University, He has published widely on Kant and in moral and political philosophy, including various books on Rawls and global justice. He is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Professorial Fellow at the ANU Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. He is also editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science.

KEITH HORTON is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Should We Give to Aid Agencies? (Edinburgh University Press), the co-editor (with Haig Patapan) of Globalisation and Equality (Routledge, 2004), and has published a number of articles on the moral implications of world poverty and related themes.

From the Back Cover

"If you want to read about the most urgent ethical questions facing humanity, you should read about global ethics. And if you read only one book on global ethics, you should read this one. It is an unmatched collection of key essays by very influential authors, which provides a great service not just to academics and students but to a very important cause."
--Paula Casal, Reader in Moral and Political Philosophy, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Reading

"Thomas Pogge and Keith Horton have brought together in one affordable volume some of the most important writings on global ethics that contemporary political philosophy has to offer. Anyone who thinks about the interconnected problems of global poverty and tyrannical rule--whether as a scholar, citizen, or policymaker--will find great value in this collection."
--Arthur I. Applbaum, Professor of Ethics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

"These important volumes succeed not only in providing a brilliantly selected collection of essays on global justice and global ethics but also, equally importantly, their trenchant introduction and organizational structure make plain why unjust global institutional arrangements are at the heart of the world's most pressing social and political challenges. These volumes should be of great interest not only to those in the political and philosophical academies but also to anyone committed to reducing global inequities in health and well being."
--Ruth Faden, Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Edition details

• Publisher: Paragon House
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557788707
• ISBN 13: 9781557788702
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 632
• Editor: Pogge Thomas, Horton Keith