Cosmopolitan Responsibility : Global Injustice, Relational Equality, and Individual Agency /

The world we live in is unjust. Preventable deprivation and suffering shape the lives of many people, while others enjoy advantages and privileges aplenty. Cosmopolitan responsibility addresses the moral responsibilities of privileged individuals to take action in the face of global structural injus...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]
Temas:
Equality.
Philosophy (General).
Privilege (Social psychology)
Responsibility.
Gleichheit.
Globale Gerechtigkeit.
Kosmopolitanismus.
Verantwortung.
cosmopolitanism.
equity.
global justice.
responsibilty.
social justice.
Privilège (Psychologie sociale)
Responsabilité.
Ethics & moral philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Equality
Responsibility
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The challenge. Global injustice and the individual agent
  • Part I. The cosmopolitan ethos
  • Chapter 1. Cosmopolitanism. The ideal of global justice, past and present
  • Chapter 2. Equality. Towards global relational egalitarianism
  • Chapter 3. Pragmatism. Practice and the possibility of progress
  • Part II. Challenges
  • Chapter 4. Impact. Do my acts matter?
  • Chapter 5. Impartiality. The fragmentation of morality
  • Chapter 6. Imperfection. Overdemandingness and the inevitability of moral failure
  • Conclusion. The ethos of cosmopolitan responsibility
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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