Moral Issues in Global Perspective - Volume 1: Moral and Political Theory - Second Edition (Paperback, 2, Revised)

Preface

CHAPTER ONE: MORALITY

• Introduction
• Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
• Immanuel Kant
• Utilitarianism
• John Stuart Mill
• Ethics: The We and the I
• V.F. Cordova
• What does the Different Voice Say? Gilligan’s Women and Moral Philosophy
• Margaret Urban Walker
• Changing Moral Values in Africa: An Essay in Ethical Relativism
• Egbeke Aja
• Study Questions
• Suggested Readings

CHAPTER TWO: HUMAN RIGHTS

• Introduction
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• United Nations
• Human Rights: A Western Construct with Limited Applicability
• Adamantia Pollis and Peter Schwab
• Globalization and Human Rights
• Jay Drydyk
• A Buddhist Response to the Nature of Human Rights
• Kenneth K. Inada
• Reconceiving Rights as Relationship
• Jennifer Nedelsky
• Study Questions
• Suggested Readings

CHAPTER THREE: JUSTICE

• A Theory of Justice
• John Rawls
• Libertarianism, Insurance Arguments, and General State Welfare
• Richard A. Garner
• Care and Justice in the Global Context
• Virginia Held
• Confucianism, Globalisation and the Idea of Universalism
• A.T. Nuyen
• Women, Citizenship and Difference
• Nira Yuval-Davis
• Study Questions
• Suggested Readings

CHAPTER FOUR: DEMOCRACY

• Introduction
• Democracy, Philosophy, and Justification
• Amy Gutmann
• Confucian Value and Democratic Value
• Chenyang Li
• In Search of Islamic Constitutionalism
• Nadirsyah Hosen
• Democracy and Its Global Roots: Why Democratization is not the same as Westernization
• Amartya Sen
• The Influence of the Global Order on the Prospects for Genuine Democracy in the Developing Countries
• Thomas W. Pogge
• Study Questions
• Suggested Readings

CHAPTER FIVE: ISSUES AND APPLICATIONS

• Introduction
• A Dialogue of the Deaf? New International Attitudes and the Death Penalty in America
• Stefanie Grant
• Child Labor and Global Inequality: Responsibilities and Policies
• Roland Pierik
• Reparations and Justice: The Case of Colonialism
• Kok-Chor Tan
• Justice for South Africa: Restorative Justice and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• Jennifer Llewellyn
• Freedom and Democracy in Cuba: A Problem of Understanding
• Susan E. Babbitt
• Study Questions
• Suggested Readings

CHAPTER SIX: WAR AND TERRORISM

• The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers of Success)
• Michael Walzer
• The Slippery Slope to Preventive War
• Neta C. Crawford
• A Requiem for Voicelessness: Pakistanis and Muslims in the US
• Asma Barlas
• Counter-Oppressive Terrorism
• Frank Cunningham
• Development and the “Global War on Terror”
• Antonio Tujan, Audrey Gaughran, and Howard Mollett
• Study Questions
• Suggested Readings

Acknowledgements