Cosmopolitan Responsibility: Global Injustice, Relational Equality, and Individual Agency

Jan-Christoph Heilinger

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2020

Cosmopolitan Responsibility

Global Injustice, Relational Equality, and Individual Agency

Jan-Christoph Heilinger

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612271

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The world we live in is unjust. Preventable deprivation and suffering shape the lives of many people, while others enjoy advantages and privileges aplenty.

Cosmopolitan responsibility addresses the moral responsibilities of privileged individuals to take action in the face of global structural injustice. Individuals are called upon to complement institutional efforts to respond to global challenges, such as climate change, unfair global trade, or world poverty.　

Committed to an ideal of relational equality among all human beings, the book discusses the impact of individual action, the challenge of special obligations, and the possibility of moral overdemandingness in order to lay the ground for an action-guiding ethos of cosmopolitan responsibility.　

This thought-provoking book will be of interest to any reflective reader concerned about justice and responsibilities in a globalised world.　

Jan-Christoph Heilinger is a moral and political philosopher. He teaches at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, and at Ecole normale supérieure, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

one of the most urgent topics of our time
lays the ground for a global political ethics

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Jan-Christoph Heilinger, LMU Munich.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	IX
Contents Open Access Download PDF	XI
Introduction: The challenge. Global injustice and the individual agent Open Access Download PDF	1
Part I. The cosmopolitan ethos
Chapter 1. Cosmopolitanism. The ideal of global justice, past and present Open Access Download PDF	21
Chapter 2. Equality. Towards global relational egalitarianism Open Access Download PDF	65
Chapter 3. Pragmatism. Practice and the possibility of progress Open Access Download PDF	119
Part II. Challenges
Chapter 4. Impact. Do my acts matter? Open Access Download PDF	137
Chapter 5. Impartiality. The fragmentation of morality Open Access Download PDF	161
Chapter 6. Imperfection. Overdemandingness and the inevitability of moral failure Open Access Download PDF	193
Conclusion. The ethos of cosmopolitan responsibility Open Access Download PDF	221
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	236
Index Open Access Download PDF	251

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, institutes, libraries, decision-makers, NGOs, all interested in ecology and distributive justice
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 255
Keywords: global justice; social justice; equity; cosmopolitanism; responsibilty

eBook

Published: November 18, 2019
ISBN: 9783110612271

Hardcover

Published: November 18, 2019
ISBN: 9783110600780

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Published: September 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110763003