Global ethics and global common goods / Patrick Riordan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riordan, Patrick, 1950- author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Studies in Global Ethics

Bloomsbury studies in global ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Common good.

Ethics.

Public goods.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Patrick Riordan takes a different approach to the questions of global ethics by following the direction of questioning initially pioneered by Aristotle; for him the most basic question of ethics is 'what is the good life'? So in the context of contemporary global ethics the Aristotelian questioner wonders about the good life on a global scale. Global Ethics and Global Common Goods fills the gap in existing literature caused by the neglect of the topic of the good in global ethics. Beginning by outlining answers to questions such as 'what is good?' and 'is there a highest good?' Riordan demonstrates the value of a common good perspective in matters of universal human rights and their institutions and practices, the study of international relations and the construction of global institutions, and debates about global justice between cosmopolitanism, nationalism and economic globalization. Philosophical questions provoked by these debates are identified and pursued, such as the question of a common human nature which seems presupposed by the language of universal rights. For experienced students of political philosophy and international relations this is a crucial text in the literature exploring the possibilities for politics on a world scale, while the perspective of the common good adds a new and distinctive dimension to current debates on global security and the challenges of managing conflict."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

The good

Common goods and the obligatory

Is there a supreme good, a Summum bonum?

Common goods and public goods

Shared meaning as a common good

Shared meaning as a global common good

The common good in current international relations

Collective action for global objectives

The law of peoples

Global justice as a global common good

Global human rights as common goods.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472580863

1472580869

9781474294263

147429426X

9781474240062

1474240062

9781472580856

1472580850

OCLC:

944225535