One World: The Ethics of Globalization

by Peter Singer

Publisher:

Yale University Press

, 2004

Overview

The book encompasses four main global issues: climate change, the role of the World Trade Organization, human rights and humanitarian intervention, and foreign aid. Singer addresses each vital issue from an ethical perspective and offers alternatives to the state-centric approach that characterizes international theory and relations today. On climate change, for example, he sees the ethical issue as one that concerns a common global resource - the capacity of the atmosphere to absorb waste gases. How much of this resource should developed notions appropriate, and how much should be left for developing nations? Regarding the WTO, Singer asks whether the organization allows free trade to override all other values, and he assesses the evidence for and against the view that globalization helps the poor. In his consideration of human rights, the author asks to what extent we can develop global laws protecting human rights and what the criteria for intervention should be when these rights are violated. Finally, Singer addresses the obligations of the world’s rich nations to assist the poor nations.

Key Features

• Addresses each vital issue from an ethical perspective and offers alternatives.
• Sees the ethical issue as one that concerns a common global resource.
• Shows the evidence for and against the view that globalization helps the poor.

Product Details

• Title: One World: The Ethics of Globalization
• Author: Peter Singer
• Edition: Second Edition
• Series: The Terry Lectures
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Print Publication Date: 2004
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 235
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Globalization › Moral and ethical aspects; Climatic changes › Moral and ethical aspects; Foreign trade regulation › Moral and ethical aspects
• ISBNs: 9780300103052, 0300103050
• Resource ID: LLS:NWRLDTHCGLBLZTN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-01T14:33:06Z

About Peter Singer

Peter Singer has been called "the world’s most influential living philosopher" as well as the father of the modern animal rights movement. He teaches at Princeton University and the University of Melbourne and is known especially for his work on the ethics of our treatment of animals, for his controversial critique of the sanctity of life doctrine in bioethics, and for his writings on the obligations of the affluent to aid those living in extreme poverty. In 2005 Time magazine named Singer one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute ranked him 3rd among Global Thought Leaders for 2013. Singer has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 40 books, including Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; How Are We to Live?; Rethinking Life and Death; The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason); The Life You Can Save; and, most recently, The Most Good You Can Do. His works have appeared in more than 25 languages.