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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Human Rights

Human Rights
Author: Adam Etinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2018
Genre: Human rights
ISBN: 0198713258

Over the past decade or so, philosophical speculation about human rights has tended to fall into two streams. On the one hand, there are "Orthodox" theorists, who think of human rights as natural rights: moral rights that we have simply in virtue of being human. On the other hand, there are"Political" theorists, who think of human rights as rights that play a distinctive role, or set of roles, in modern international politics: setting universal standards of political legitimacy, serving as norms of international concern, and/or imposing limits on the exercise of national sovereignty.This edited volume explores this disagreement, its underlying sources, and related issues in the philosophy of human rights. Using the Orthodox-Political debate as a springboard for broader reflection, the volume covers a diverse range of questions about: the relevance of the history of human rightsto their philosophical comprehension; how to properly understand the relationship between human rights morality and law; how to balance the normative character of human rights - their description of an ideal world - with the requirement that they be feasible in the here and now; the role of humanrights in a world shaped by politics and power; and how to reconcile the individualistic and communitarian aspects of human rights.All chapters are accompanied by useful and probing commentaries, which help to create dialogues throughout the entire volume.