World Ethics: The New Agenda (Edinburgh Studies in World Ethics) - Hardcover

Nigel Dower

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748632700 ISBN 13: 9780748632701

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2007

Synopsis

World Ethics: The New Agenda identifies different ways of thinking about ethics, and of thinking ethically about international and global relations. It also considers several theories of world ethics in the context of issues such as war and peace, world poverty, the environment and the United Nations. Key Features: * Rejects the idea of international scepticism and the 'morality of states' * Demonstrates the distinction between a global ethic as a theory and as social reality * Defends the claim that we are world citizens with global duties The second edition has been substantially revised to take account of recent global developments. The discussion is grounded in an awareness of the post-9/11 world in which we live and offers a more detailed exploration of the idea of global citizenship and a global or cosmopolitan ethic. There are new sections on terrorism and security and on global justice, and additional material on issues such as climate change, internationalist ethics, the ethics of war, sustainability, development, globalisation, global civil society and global governance. Each chapter now has a summary box at the beginning and a set of questions for discussion at the end.

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Review:

An interesting and useful contribution to ethical and political discussion of global orinternational topics. -- Brenda Almond, University of Hull A stimulating challenge to mind and spirit. -- Grace Crookall-Greening Good introduction to wide range of issues -- Neal Curtis, APU, Cambridge An interesting and useful contribution to ethical and political discussion of global orinternational topics. A stimulating challenge to mind and spirit. Good introduction to wide range of issues

About the Author:

Nigel Dower is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. Publications include Ethics and Environmental Responsibility (Gower Publishing, 1989) and World Ethics: The New Agenda (1998). He is editor of the series Edinburgh Studies in World Ethics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0748632700
• ISBN 13: 9780748632701
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224