Global Ethics

 

Table of Contents

 

Part I: Ethical Theory

 

I                    Liberalism, Libertarianism, Utilitarianism and Communitarianism

Introduction

1        Rawls
selections from A Theory of Justice

2        Nozick
selections from Anarchy, State and Utopia

3        Peter Singer
The Right to be Rich or Poor

4        Amartya Sen and Bernard Williams
Utilitarianism and Beyond

5        Daniel Bell
Communitarianism

6        Amartya Sen
Equality of What?

Part II: Issues in Global Ethics

II                 Poverty

Introduction

7        Food and Agricultural Agency of the United Nations
The State of Food Insecurity in the World

8        Rebecca Mead
Dressing for Lula

9        Amartya Sen
Why Half the Planet is Hungry

10    Michael Massing
Does Democracy Avert Famine?

III               Globalization

Introduction

11    IMF Staff
Globalization: Threat or Opportunity

12    Kevin Watkins
Making Globalization Work for the Poor

13    Benjamin Barber
Jihad vs. MacWorld

14    Joseph Stiglitz
Do What We Did, Not What We Say

15    Paul Krugman
In Praise of Cheap Labor

IV              Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism and Aid

Introduction

16    J. L. Holzgrefe
Humanitarian Intervention

17    Dinesh DÕSouza
Two Cheers for Colonialism

18    Rudyard Kipling
Lispeth

19    Clifford Bob
Merchants of Morality

20    Muhamad Yunus
The Grameen Bank

V                War, Revolution and Terrorism

Introduction

21    Frantz Fanon
selections from The Wretched of the Earth

22    David Luban
Just War and Human Rights

23    Project for the New American Century
Rebuilding AmericaÕs Defenses

24    Soran Reader
Making Pacifism Plausible

25    Thomas Nagel
War and Massacre

VI              Population and the Environment

Introduction

26    United Nations Environmental Programme
Global Environment Outlook

27    Hardin
Ethics on a Lifeboat

28    Peter Singer
One Atmosphere

29    Vandana Shiva
An Open Letter to Oxfam

30    Thomas DiGregori
Shiva the Destroyer

VII           Gender

Introduction

31    World Bank report
Engendering Development

32    Lusaka
Wife-Beating in Zambia ÒA Natural ConsequenceÓ

33    Martha Nussbaum
Adaptive Preference and WomenÕs Options

VIII         Culture and Identity

Introduction

34    United Nations Declaration of Universal Human RightsCarolyn Fluehr-Lobban
Anthropologists, Cultural Relativism and Universal Rights

35    Anthony Appiah
Color Conscious: Race, Culture and Identity

36    Mario Vargas Llosa
The Culture of Liberty

37    Alexis Rawlinson
The Manipulation of Ethnicity in Africa

IX              Immigration, Integration and Diversity

Introduction

38    David Goodhart
Too Diverse?

39    Janet Halley
Culture Constrains

40    Carol J. Williams
The Price of Freedom, in BloodJosie Appleton
Veiled Concerns

41    Bruce Crumley and Adam Smith
Sisters in Hell