Global Ethics and Global Common Goods.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Good -- Goods and values -- What are values? -- Is everything we appreciate or approve of a value? -- Does value reduce to valuing? -- What does it mean for something to be good for someone? -- 2. Common Goods and the Obligatory -- Are there common goods? -- Is there a political common good? -- The good and prescription -- Desire-independent reasons -- The rule of law as a common good -- Conclusion -- 3. Is There a Supreme Good, a summum bonum? -- Value pluralism -- The rejection of monism -- Eudaimonia, flourishing or well-being -- The flourishing of a university or a city -- Communal flourishing as a common good -- Conclusion -- 4. Common Goods and Public Goods -- Economic categories of the good -- Market failure and regulation -- Public bads -- Commons -- Externalities and private goods -- What determines whether a good is public? -- Global public goods: Commons, natural and produced -- global conditions -- Summary -- Types of common goods -- Alternative approaches to the distinctions -- Conclusion -- 5. Shared Meaning as a Common Good -- Categories of common goods -- A university as an example: Dimensions of shared meaning -- 6. Shared Meaning as a Global Common Good -- Searle's social ontology -- Acceptance -- Collective intentionality -- Institutions -- Government and power -- Human rights as deontic powers -- Conclusion -- 7. The Common Good in Current International Relations -- Legitimate authority in an anarchic world -- International cooperation for common goods -- International order as a common good -- Contested Meanings -- Conclusion -- 8. Collective Action for Global Objectives -- Game theory's explanation of cooperation -- Successful coordination -- A range of model games -- Types of global coordination problems -- Conclusion -- 9. The Law of Peoples.

Not individuals but peoples -- Peoples and societies, not states -- Well-ordered peoples: Liberal and decent -- The original position -- A common good idea of justice -- Global common good -- 10. Global Justice as a Global Common Good -- Types of cosmopolitanism -- Pogge on global poverty -- Unjust global institutions -- Global justice without a global sovereign -- Nationalism: Social justice or global justice? -- Conclusion -- 11. Global Human Rights as Common Goods -- Rights: Norms or goods? -- The development of human rights -- Human rights and the good -- Disputes about the meaning of rights -- The ground of human rights -- Rejecting the need for grounds -- Human rights as norms -- Conclusion -- 12. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Patrick Riordan takes a different approach to the questions of global ethics by following the direction of questioning initially pioneered by Aristotle; for him the most basic question of ethics is 'what is the good life'? So in the context of contemporary global ethics the Aristotelian questioner wonders about the good life on a global scale. Global Ethics and Global Common Goods fills the gap in existing literature caused by the neglect of the topic of the good in global ethics. Beginning by outlining answers to questions such as 'what is good?' and 'is there a highest good?' Riordan demonstrates the value of a common good perspective in matters of universal human rights and their institutions and practices, the study of international relations and the construction of global institutions, and debates about global justice between cosmopolitanism, nationalism and economic globalization. Philosophical questions provoked by these debates are identified and pursued, such as the question of a common human nature which seems presupposed by the language of universal rights. For experienced students of political philosophy and international relations this is a crucial text in the literature exploring the possibilities for politics on a world scale, while the perspective of the common good adds a new and distinctive dimension to current debates on global security and the challenges of managing conflict.

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