Justice at a Distance: Extending Freedom Globally - Softcover

Lomasky, Loren E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107536022 ISBN 13: 9781107536029

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Justice at a Distance argues that global justice is largely caused by ill-designed local political structures, not because of insufficient aid.

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About the Authors

Loren Lomasky is Cory Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Virginia. Lomasky is the author of Persons, Rights and the Moral Community (1987) for which he was awarded the 1990 Matchette Foundation Book Prize for best philosophy book published during the preceding two years by an author under the age of forty. He coauthored Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (Cambridge, 1993) with Geoffrey Brennan. His essay, 'Is There a Duty to Vote?', also coauthored with Brennan, was awarded the 2003 Gregory Kavka/University of California, Irvine Prize in Political Philosophy by the American Philosophical Association.

Fernando R. Tesón is the Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar at Florida State University. He is the author of Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality, 3rd edition and Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation: A Theory of Discourse Failure (with Guido Pincione). He has written more than fifty articles in journals, including Ethics and International Affairs, the Journal of Philosophy, the American Journal of International Law and Social Philosophy and Policy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107536022
• ISBN 13: 9781107536029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296