Moral Issues in Global Perspective - Volume 1: Moral and Political Theory - Second Edition

Moral Issues in Global Perspective - Volume 1: Moral and Political Theory - Second Edition
Author: Christine Koggel
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2006-03-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1551117479

Now available in three thematic volumes, the second edition of Moral Issues in Global Perspective is a collection of the newest and best articles on current moral issues by moral and political theorists from around the globe. Each volume seeks to challenge the standard approaches to morality and moral issues shaped by Western liberal theory and to extend the inquiry beyond the context of North America. Covering a broad range of issues and arguments, this collection includes critiques of traditional liberal accounts of rights, justice, and moral values, while raising questions about the treatment of disadvantaged groups within and across societies affected by globalization. Providing new perspectives on issues such as war and terrorism, reproduction, euthanasia, censorship, and the environment, each volume of Moral Issues in Global Perspective incorporates work by race, class, feminist, and disability theorists. Moral and Political Theory, the first of the three volumes, surveys a number of traditional Western liberal approaches to moral theory, human rights, justice, and democracy, as well as contemporary critiques of these approaches. With nineteen new essays, three of which were written especially for this edition, this volume covers the necessary theories for understanding moral issues in a global context. Moral Issues in Global Perspective is available in three separate volumes—Moral and Political Theory, Human Diversity and Equality, and Moral Issues.

Rightness as Fairness

Rightness as Fairness
Author: Marcus Arvan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1137541814

Rightness as Fairness provides a uniquely fruitful method of 'principled fair negotiation' for resolving applied moral and political issues that requires merging principled debate with real-world negotiation.

Equality and Tradition

Equality and Tradition
Author: Samuel Scheffler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2012-01-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199899576

This collection of essays by noted philosopher Samuel Scheffler combines discussion of abstract questions in moral and political theory with attention to the normative dimension of current social and political controversies. In addition to chapters on more abstract issues such as the nature of human valuing, the role of partiality in ethics, and the significance of the distinction between doing and allowing, the volume also includes essays on immigration, terrorism, toleration, political equality, and the normative significance of tradition. Uniting the essays is a shared preoccupation with questions about human value and values. The volume opens with an essay that considers the general question of what it is to value something - as opposed, say, to wanting it, wanting to want it, or thinking that it is valuable. Other essays explore particular values, such as equality, whose meaning and content are contested. Still others consider the tensions that arise, both within and among individuals, in consequence of the diversity of human values. One of the overarching aims of the book is to illuminate the different ways in which liberal political theory attempts to resolve conflicts of both of these kinds.

Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights

Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights
Author: Reidar Maliks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107153972

Human rights can be understood as moral or political. This volume shows how this distinction matters for theory and practice.

Classics of Moral and Political Theory

Classics of Moral and Political Theory
Author: Michael L. Morgan
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 1372
Release: 2011-09-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1603846689

The fifth edition of Michael L. Morgan's Classics of Moral and Political Theory broadens the scope and increases the versatility of this landmark anthology by offering new selections from Aristotle's Politics, Aquinas' Disputed Questions on Virtue and Treatise on Law, as well as the entirety of Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration, Kant's To Perpetual Peace, and Nietzsche's On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life.

Moral and Political Philosophy

Moral and Political Philosophy
Author: Paul Smith
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2008-04-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230593941

A clear and concise introduction to moral and political philosophy which critically analyses arguments about controversial and topical practical issues – drug laws, justifications of punishment, civil disobedience, whether there is a duty to obey the law, and global poverty.

Moral Vision in International Politics

Moral Vision in International Politics
Author: David Halloran Lumsdaine
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 1993-02-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780691027678

This investigation of the evolving foreign aid policies of 18 developed nations challenges conventional international relations theory and explains how ethical commitments and humanitarian convictions can help to structure global politics.

Moral Matters - Second Edition

Moral Matters - Second Edition
Author: Jan Narveson
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1999-09-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781551112121

Moral Matters is a concise and accessible look at such ethical issues as euthanasia, animal rights, abortion, and pornography. It provides a focused set of views from the unified perspective of one of North America’s leading libertarian thinkers, and aims to provoke thought and discussion as well as to enrich understanding. For the new edition the text has been revised throughout, the introduction has been greatly expanded, and a new chapter on environmental issues has been added.

A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation

A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation
Author: Colleen Murphy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-10-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 113949225X

Following extended periods of conflict or repression, political reconciliation is indispensable to the establishment or restoration of democratic relationships and critical to the pursuit of peacemaking globally. In this book, Colleen Murphy offers an innovative analysis of the moral problems plaguing political relationships under the strain of civil conflict and repression. Focusing on the unique moral damage that attends the deterioration of political relationships, Murphy identifies the precise kinds of repair and transformation that processes of political reconciliation ought to promote. Building on this analysis, she proposes a normative model of political relationships. A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation delivers an original account of the failure and restoration of political relationships, which will be of interest to philosophers, social scientists, legal scholars, policy analysts, and all those who are interested in transitional justice, global politics, and democracy.