Global Ethics - Seminal Essays: Global Responsibilities

Informationen zum Autor Keith Horton's researches moral and political philosophy, especially the moral implications of world poverty. He has written numerous articles on these themes, and co-edited three books: Ethical Questions and International NGOs (with Chris Roche, Springer 2010), Global Ethics: Seminal Essays (with Thomas Pogge, Paragon 2008), and Globalisation and Equality (with Haig Patapan, Routledge, 2004). He is a co-founder and board member of Academics Stand Against Poverty (academicsstand.org/), an international professional association focused on helping poverty researchers and teachers enhance their positive impact on severe poverty. He is also a co-founder and co-chair of Academics Stand Against Poverty Oceania He is Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Wollongong. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung There has been an explosion of interest in global ethics. This volume presents a collection of the best work on these issues. The topics covered include: the causes of persistent poverty in certain countries; the moral basis for the right to self-determination; and can there ever be a genuinely universal consensus on human rights?

Product details

• Authors: Keith Horton, Thomas Pagge, Thomas Pogge, Thomas (EDT)/ Horton Pogge
• Assisted by: Keith Horton (Editor), Thomas Pogge (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2008
• EAN: 9781557788702
• ISBN: 978-1-55778-870-2
• No. of pages: 642
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Paragon Issues in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education