Gibt es starke positive Pflichten? Offensichtlich halten wir es für eine starke Pflicht, ein ertrinkendes Kind zu retten. Was die Stärke einer solchen Hilfspflicht ausmacht und wie sie von Handlungen, die über Pflichten hinausgehen, und Wohltätigkeitspflichten zu unterscheiden i…
Are there strong positive obligations? We obviously consider it a strong obligation to save a drowning child. The first part of this work investigates the factors that define the strength of such an obligation to help and how this is to be differentiated from actions that transc…
Argues that the growing cultural significance of moral values among poor rural Americans is due, in large part, to inevitable economic collapse and the government's responses to difficult financial times.
Argues that the growing cultural significance of moral values among poor rural Americans is due, in large part, to inevitable economic collapse and the government's responses to difficult financial times.
"When the rural poor prioritize issues such as the right to bear arms, and disapprove of welfare despite their economic concerns, they are often dismissed as uneducated and backward by academics and political analysts. In Those Who Work, Those Who Don't, Jennifer Sherman offers …
'Globalizing Justice' provides philosophical foundations for political responsibility, an agenda of policies for responding to major global problems, and a distinctive appraisal of 'the American empire'. It offers realistic stratefgies for global social movement that helps to mo…
'Globalizing Justice' provides philosophical foundations for political responsibility, an agenda of policies for responding to major global problems, and a distinctive appraisal of 'the American empire'. It offers realistic stratefgies for global social movement that helps to mo…
Combining deep moral argument with extensive factual inquiry, Richard Miller constructs a new account of international justice. Though a critic of demanding principles of kindness toward the global poor and an advocate of special concern for compatriots, he argues for standards…
'Globalizing Justice' provides philosophical foundations for political responsibility, an agenda of policies for responding to major global problems, and a distinctive appraisal of 'the American empire'. It offers realistic stratefgies for global social movement that helps to mo…
'Globalizing Justice' provides philosophical foundations for political responsibility, an agenda of policies for responding to major global problems, and a distinctive appraisal of 'the American empire'. It offers realistic stratefgies for global social movement that helps to mo…
This book makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy. The U.S. Constitution is supposed to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor are subject to invasions of privacy that can be perceived as gross demonstrations of gov…
