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
Biography
Michael Boylan