Global Justice: Defending Cosmopolitanism

by Charles Jones

Book Overview

What obligations do wealthy people have to ensure that the world's poor achieve a quality of life that is recognizably human? This is the fundamental question of international distributive justice and one that has only been seriously debated in the last twenty-five years. This highly informative work analyzes the relative merits of the core moral perspectives framing the debates, including the universalist, nationalist, patriotism, and relativist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199242224
• ISBN13: 9780199242221
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"