The Morality and Global Justice Reader

Description

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 such as poverty and the global economy; global health; religion; war; and gender, identity, and family. Distinguished philosopher and volume editor Michael Boylan provides a unifying introduction to each section. In addition, an abstract and list of key words provide readers with an informative entry into each reading. An engaging resource for all students of philosophy and politics, The Morality and Global Justice Reader not only offers an essential foundation of global justice and its policy implications, but also aims to inspire readers to positive action for change. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Part One: Normative Principles Chapter 1 Global Human Rights Chapter 2 On Justifying Human Rights Chapter 3 When Is Ignorance Morally Objectionable? Chapter 4 The Ethics of Otherness Part Two: Normative Theories Chapter 5 Consequentialism and Global Ethics Chapter 6 How to Think About Global Duties Part Three: Normative Applications Poverty and the Global Economy Chapter 7 Collective Responsibility and Global Poverty Chapter 8 Building Wealth with Conditional Cash Transfers Chapter 9 Ethics and Global Finance Chapter 10 Global Business and Global Justice Global Health Chapter 11 Global Health Justice Chapter 12 Access to Life-Saving Medicines Religion Chapter 13 What Price Theocracy? Chapter 14 Global Ethics in the Academy War Chapter 15 The Law of Peoples Chapter 16 Cosmopolitan Revisions of Just War Gender, Identity, and Family Chapter 17 Women on the Move Chapter 18 Gender and Sex Development Chapter 19 Duties to Children About the Contributors Index