Global Ethics and Global Common Goods

Riordan, Patrick

ISBN 10: 147429426X / ISBN 13: 9781474294263

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Global Ethics and Global Common Goods
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147429426X
• ISBN 13: 9781474294263
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Patrick Riordan takes a different approach to the questions of global ethics by following the direction of questioning initially pioneered by Aristotle; for him the most basic question of ethics is 'what is the good life'? So in the context of contemporary global ethics the Aristotelian questioner wonders about the good life on a global scale. Global Ethics and Global Common Goods fills the gap in existing literature caused by the neglect of the topic of the good in global ethics.

Beginning by outlining answers to questions such as 'what is good?' and 'is there a highest good?' Riordan demonstrates the value of a common good perspective in matters of universal human rights and their institutions and practices, the study of international relations and the construction of global institutions, and debates about global justice between cosmopolitanism, nationalism and economic globalization. Philosophical questions provoked by these debates are identified and pursued, such as the question of a common human nature which seems presupposed by the language of universal rights.

For experienced students of political philosophy and international relations this is a crucial text in the literature exploring the possibilities for politics on a world scale, while the perspective of the common good adds a new and distinctive dimension to current debates on global security and the challenges of managing conflict.

About the Authors

Patrick Riordan is Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London, UK. He is a member of the Heythrop Institute: Religion & Society. His previous publications include A Grammar of the Common Good: Speaking of Globalization (Continuum, 2008).

Janusz Salamon is Associate Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and Adjunct Professor at New York University, USA. He is Founding Editor of the "European Journal for the Philosophy of Religion" and Member of the John Hick Centre forPhilosophy of Religion, University of Birmingham, UK. He currently serves as President of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion.

Anna Abram is Lecturer in Ethics/Christian Ethics and Head of the Pastoral and Social Studies Department at Heythrop College, University of London, UK.