The Morality and Global Justice Reader

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.

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

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