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Re-charting global ethics

Journal of Global Ethics 10 (1):38-44 (2014)

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Self and Community in a Changing World.D. A. Masolo - 2010 - Indiana University Press.details Revisiting African philosophy’s classic questions, D. A. Masolo advances understandings of what it means to be human—whether of African or other origin. Masolo reframes indigenous knowledge as diversity: How are we to understand the place and structure of consciousness? How does the everyday color the world we know? Where are the boundaries between self and other, universal and particular, and individual and community? From here, he takes a dramatic turn toward Africa’s current political situation and considers why individual rights and (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 35 citations
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers.Kwame Anthony Appiah - 2006 - W.W. Norton & Co.details A political and philosophical manifesto considers the ramifications of a world in which Western society is divided from other cultures, evaluating the limited capacity of differentiating societies as compared to the power of a united world. Download Export citation Bookmark 180 citations
(1 other version)A Theory of Justice.John Rawls - 1971 - Oxford,: Harvard University Press. Edited by Steven M. Cahn.details Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. Download Export citation Bookmark 1178 citations
(4 other versions)Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals.Immanuel Kant & James W. Ellington - 1981 - Hackett.details In this classic text, Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues. This new edition and translation of Kant's work is designed especially for students. An extensive and comprehensive introduction explains the central concepts of Groundwork and looks at Kant's main lines of argument. Detailed notes aim to clarify Kant's thoughts and to correct some commonmisunderstandings (...) of his doctrines. (shrink) Download Export citation Bookmark 188 citations
(3 other versions)A Theory of Justice.John Rawls - unknowndetails Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book. Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition--justice as fairness--and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4829 citations
(3 other versions)A theory of justice.John Rawls - 2009 - In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 133-135.details Though the Revised Edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawlsıs view, so much of the extensive literature on ... Download Export citation Bookmark 1444 citations
(1 other version)The Impact of African Studies on Philosophy.V. Y. Mudimbe & Kwame Anthony Appiah - 1993 - In Robert Bates, Valentin Mudimbe, O’Barr Y. & Jean (eds.), Africa and the Disciplines: The Contributions of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and Humanities. University of Chicago Press. pp. 113--138.details Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
(1 other version)The Impact of African Studies on Philosophy.Kwame Anthony Appiah & V. Y. Mudimbe - 2003 - In Robert Bates, V. Y. Mudimbe & Jean O'Barr (eds.), The Impact of African Studies on the Disciplines. University of Chicago. pp. 113-38.details Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations

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