The Commonwealth of Life

by Brown, Peter G.

• ISBN13: 9781551643045
• ISBN10: 1551643049
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Black Rose Books Ltd

Summary

In the First Edition of this remarkable book, Peter G. Brown, through a series of careful arguments, identified three challenges that lay ahead of us: the first was to come up with an adequate account of our minimal obligations to each other, and to the rest of the natural order; the second was to redefine and reshape the institutions of economics, government, and civil society to reflect those obligations; and the third was to re-conceptualize and redirect relations between nations so as to foster those institutions and discharge those obligations.

Author Biography

Peter G. Brown is a Professor in the School of Environment and the Departments of Geography, and Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface to the First Edition	p. ix
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction to the First Edition	p. 1
Progress and the Commonwealth of Life
Introduction	p. 7
Duties Beyond Borders	p. 9
Duties Beyond the Present and Beyond Persons	p. 30
Fiduciary Institutions
Introduction	p. 59
Stewardship Economics	p. 61
Government as Trustee	p. 88
Civil Society and the Commonwealth of Life	p. 102
Transparent Sovereignty
Introduction	p. 121
Global Ethics and Fiduciary States	p. 123
The Nation and the World	p. 138
Are There any Natural Resources?	p. 160
Epilogue	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 196
Index	p. 213
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