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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101107538173

ISBN-139781107538177

eBay Product ID (ePID)217066995

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Number of Pages249 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameJustice Across Boundaries : Whose Obligations?

SubjectGlobalization, Human Rights, General, Political

Publication Year2016

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLaw, Political Science, Philosophy

AuthorOnora O'neill

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2015-031125

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Onora O'Neill combines the most rigorous philosophical thinking with a rare capacity for judgment in order to address some of the deepest challenges of our age. Her essays are essential reading not only for philosophers and political theorists but for all those concerned about the prospects of justice on our planet." John Tasioulas, King's College London

Dewey Decimal341

Table Of ContentIntroduction; Part I. Hunger across Boundaries: 1. Lifeboat Earth; 2. Rights, obligations and world hunger; 3. Rights to compensation; Part II. Justifications across Boundaries: 4. Justice and boundaries; 5. Ethical reasoning and ideological pluralism; 6. Bounded and cosmopolitan justice; 7. Pluralism, positivism and the justification of human rights; Part III. Action across Boundaries: 8. From Edmund Burke to twenty-first-century human rights: abstraction, circumstances and globalisation; 9. From statist to global conceptions of justice; 10. Global justice: whose obligations?; 11. Agents of justice; 12. The dark side of human rights; Part IV. Health across Boundaries: 13. Public health or clinical ethics: thinking beyond borders; 14. Broadening bioethics: clinical ethics, public health and global health; Index.

SynopsisWho ought to do what, and for whom, if global justice is to progress? In this collection of essays on justice beyond borders, Onora O'Neill criticises theoretical approaches that concentrate on rights, yet ignore both the obligations that must be met to realise those rights, and the capacities needed by those who shoulder these obligations. She notes that states are profoundly anti-cosmopolitan institutions, and that even those committed to justice and universal rights often lack the competence and the will to secure them, let alone to secure them beyond their borders. She argues for a wider conception of global justice, in which obligations may be held either by states or by competent non-state actors, and in which borders themselves must meet standards of justice. This rich and wide-ranging collection will appeal to a broad array of academic researchers and advanced students of political philosophy, political theory, international relations and philosophy of law., Offering an answer to the question 'who ought to do what, and for whom, if global justice is to progress?', this book will interest academic researchers and advanced students of global justice, human rights, political philosophy and political theory.

LC Classification NumberJZ1306.O64 2016