Global Ethics Seminal Essays

by Pogge, Thomas; Horton, Keith

• ISBN13: 9781557788702
• ISBN10: 1557788707
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-01
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

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

Author Biography

Thomas Pogge is Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University. Research Director in the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo, and Professorial Fellow in the Australian National University Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, which generously paid all the permission fees for this volume and its companion Global Justice Keith Horton is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xxv
Famine, Affluence, and Morality	p. 1
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor	p. 15
Just War and Human Rights	p. 29
The Moral Standing of States: A Response to Four Critics	p. 51
Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs, Part I	p. 73
Cosmopolitan Ideals and National Sentiment	p. 107
Is Patriotism a Virtue?	p. 119
Rights, Obligations and World Hunger	p. 139
The Concept of Development	p. 157
National Self-Determination	p. 181
Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions	p. 207
Gender Inequality and Cultural Differences	p. 233
Population: Delusion and Reality	p. 259
Individual Responsibility in a Global Age	p. 291
Who Are We? Moral Universalism and Economic Triage	p. 313
Sections 1-3 of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of Living High and Letting Die	p. 325
The Justification of National Partiality	p. 379
Conditions of an Unforced Consensus on Human Rights	p. 405
[section] 15 and [section] 16 of The Law of Peoples	p. 431
The Real Tragedy of the Commons	p. 447
Distributing Responsibilities	p. 481
Moral Closeness and World Community	p. 507
"Assisting" the Global Poor	p. 531
"Saving Amina": Global Justice for Women and Intercultural Dialogue	p. 565
Index	p. 605
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