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

Jan-Christoph Heilinger

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

(English)

Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter
Copyrightjahr: 2020
Zielgruppe: Scholars, institutes, libraries, decision-makers, NGOs, all interested in ecology and distributive justice
Seiten
- Frontmatter: 12
- Inhalt: 255
Schlagworte: Kosmopolitanismus; Globale Gerechtigkeit; Gleichheit; Verantwortung

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Veröffentlicht: 18. November 2019
ISBN: 9783110612271

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Veröffentlicht: 18. November 2019
ISBN: 9783110600780

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Veröffentlicht: 20. September 2021
ISBN: 9783110763003