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Global Ethics and Global Common Goods (Hardcover)
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Global Ethics and Global Common Goods (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Global Ethics
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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 a gap 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?', chapters follow on
to demonstrate 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, debates about global justice between cosmopolitanism
and nationalism and other forms of particularism, and of course
debates about globalisation in economic affairs. 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. The possibilities
for politics on a world scale are part of the literature of the
relevant disciplines, but the perspective of the common good adds a
new and distinctive dimension to those debates. The concerns for
global security and the challenges of managing conflict are also
shown to benefit from a rereading in terms of the goods in common
between participants in global political affairs.
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