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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964655603321

Autore

Miller Richard W. <1945->

Titolo

Globalizing justice : the ethics of poverty and power / / Richard W. Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-19-161485-8

0-19-172324-X

1-282-54447-0

9786612544477

0-19-157388-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 pages)

Disciplina

337.01

Soggetti

Globalization - Moral and ethical aspects

Poverty - Moral and ethical aspects

Power (Social sciences)

Globalization - Economic aspects

Globalization - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : international justice and transnational power -- Kindness and its limits -- Compatriots and foreigners -- Globalization moralized -- Global harm and global equity : the case of greenhouse justice -- Modern empire -- Empire and obligation -- Imperial excess -- Quasi-cosmopolitanism -- Global social democracy.

Sommario/riassunto

'Globalizing Justice' provides philosophical foundations for political responsibility, an agenda of policies for responding to major global problems, and a distinctive appraisal of 'the American empire'. It offers realistic stratefgies for global social movement that helps to move humanity toward global cooperation.