Global basic rights / edited by Charles R. Beitz and Robert E. Goodin.

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009Description: ix, 256 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0199570264
9780199570263

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DDC classification:

327.101 22

LOC classification:

JC571 .G567 2009
JZ1305

Contents:

1. Introduction: Basic Rights and Beyond / Charles R. Beitz and Robert E. Goodin -- 2. On Rights and Institutions / Christian Reus-Smit -- 3. Another Turn of the Wheel? / Andrew Hurrell -- 4. Are There Any Basic Rights? / Judith Lichtenberg -- 5. The Alleged Dichotomy Between Positive and Negative Duties of Justice / Elizabeth Ashford -- 6. Shue on Rights and Duties / Thomas Pogge -- 7. No Borders, No Bystanders: Developing Individual and Institutional Capacities for Global Moral Responsibility / Neta C. Crawford -- 8. Global Power and Economic Justice / Richard W. Miller -- 9. Unthinking the Ticking Bomb / David Luban -- 10. Security as a Basic Right (After 9 /11) / Jeremy Waldron -- 11. Human Rights, Responsibilities, and Climate Change / Simon Caney.

Summary: "Politically, as well as philosophically, concerns with human rights have permeated many of the most important debates on social justice worldwide for fully a half-century. Henry Shue's 1980 book on Basic Rights proved to be a pioneering contribution to those debates, and one that continues to elicit both critical and constructive comment. Global Basic Rights brings together many of the most influential contemporary writers in political philosophy and international relations - Charles Beitz, Robert Goodin, Christian Reus-Smit, Andrew Hurrell, Judith Lichtenberg, Elizabeth Ashford, Thomas Pogge, Neta Crawford, Richard Miller, David Luban, Jeremy Waldron and Simon Caney- to explore some of the most challenging theoretical and practical questions that Shue's work provokes. These range from the question of the responsibilities of the global rich to redress severe poverty to the permissibility of using torture to gain information to fight international terrorism. The contributors explore the continuing value of the idea of "basic rights" in understanding moral challenges as diverse as child labor and global climate change."--Publisher's website.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	327.101 GLO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A455505B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Politically, as well as philosophically, concerns with human rights have permeated many of the most important debates on social justice worldwide for fully a half-century. Henry Shue's 1980 book on Basic Rights proved to be a pioneering contribution to those debates, and one that continues to elicit both critical and constructive comment. Global Basic Rights brings together many of the most influential contemporary writers in political philosophy and international relations - Charles Beitz, Robert Goodin, Christian Reus-Smit, Andrew Hurrell, Judith Lichtenberg, Elizabeth Ashford, Thomas Pogge, Neta Crawford, Richard Miller, David Luban, Jeremy Waldron and Simon Caney- to explore some of the most challenging theoretical and practical questions that Shue's work provokes. These range from the question of the responsibilities of the global rich to redress severe poverty to the permissibility of using torture to gain information to fight international terrorism. The contributors explore the continuing value of the idea of "basic rights" in understanding moral challenges as diverse as child labor and global climate change."--Publisher's website.

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