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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Autor principal: Heilinger, Jan-Christoph, author (author)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter 2020
[2019]
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009438894006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The challenge. Global injustice and the individual agent
  • 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
  • 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