1st Edition

The Morality and Global Justice Reader

By Michael Boylan Copyright 2011
439 Pages
by Routledge

440 Pages
by Routledge

440 Pages
by Routledge

This cutting-edge volume of original essays features a diverse, international team of prominent scholars examining issues of morality and justice within a global perspective. The chapters are grouped according to an integrative design that progresses from normative principles to normative theories to normative applications. Applications chapters address current significant and provocative topics... Read more

Introduction

 

Normative Principles

Introduction

 

Global Human Rights

Robert Paul Churchill

On Justifying Human Rights

John-Stewart Gordon

When is Ignorance Morally Objectionable?

Julie Kirsch

The Ethics of Otherness

Wanda Teays

 

Normative Theories

Introduction

 

Consequentialism and Global Ethics

Hallvard Lillehammer

How to Think about Global Duties: A Deontological Approach

Christian Illies

 

Normative Applications

 

Poverty and the Global Economy

Introduction

Collective Responsibility

Seumas Miller

Building Wealth with Conditional Cash Transfers: A Strategy for Economic Mobility

Michael Boylan

Ethics and Global Finance

Klaus Steigleder

Global Business and Global Justice

Nien-He Hsieh

 

Global Health and the Environment

Introduction

Global Health Justice

Michael J. Selgelid

Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Life-Saving Medicines

Doris Schroeder, Thomas Pogge, and Peter Singer

Challenges to the Global Environment

Andrew Light

 

Religion

Introduction

What Price Theocracy?

Laura Purdy

Global Ethics in the Academy

James A. Donahue 

 

War

Introduction

The Law of Peoples

David Cummiskey

Cosmopolitan Revisions of Just War

Gabriel Palmer Fernandez

 

Gender, Identity, and Family

Introduction

Women on the Move

Rosmarie Tong

Gender and Sex Development

Simona Giordano

Duties to Children

Michael Boylan

Biography

Michael Boylan