Global Justice : Defending Cosmopolitanism.
Annotation What obligations do the world's wealthy people have to ensure that the world's poor achieve a quality of life that is recognizably human? This is the fundamental question of international distributive justice, and surprisingly a question that has been the subject of serious deba...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York :
Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
2001.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Annotation What obligations do the world's wealthy people have to ensure that the world's poor achieve a quality of life that is recognizably human? This is the fundamental question of international distributive justice, and surprisingly a question that has been the subject of serious debate only in the past three decades. Charles Jones outlines and evaluates the main competing moral perspectives framing these debates, assessing the relative merits of the utilitarian, human rights, and neo-Kantian perspectives before answering the nationalist, patriotic, relativist, and constitutivist challenges to moral universalism. Jones defends a form of cosmopolitanism involving a commitment to basic human rights, and provides both a guide to the state of the art in disputes about global justice, and a distinctive defense of the moral case for change in the international system. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 electronic document) |
| Audience: | College Audience |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191697067 0191697060 1280904860 9781280904868 9786610904860 6610904863 |