Global ethics and global common goods
By: Patrick Riordan
Series: Bloomsbury studies in global ethics
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781472580849
Subjects: Common good; Public goods; Ethics
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The good; title: Common goods and the obligatory; title: Is there a supreme good, a Summum bonum?; title: Common goods and public goods; title: Shared meaning as a common good; title: Shared meaning as a global common good; title: The common good in current international relations; title: Collective action for global objectives; title: The law of peoples; title: Global justice as a global common good; title: Global human rights as common goods.