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Cosmopolitan Spirit
The romantic poet-philosopher, NovalisNovalis, argues the cosmopolitan mindset can be reached through creative imagination, an authentic experience...
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One Cosmopolitan World, or None
The first chapter describes Locke’s cosmopolitan theory. I show Locke’s cosmopolitan commitments by appeal to a common division in contemporary...
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National Injustice, Caring Institutions and Cosmopolitan Motivation
This paper examines the relationship between strategies of cosmopolitan education intended to motivate citizens of affluent countries to care about...
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Vulnerability, Moral responsibility, and Moral Obligations: the case of Industrial Action in the Medical and Allied Professions
The article addresses issues at the nexus of physician industrial action, moral agency, and responsibility. There are situations in which we find...
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Nuclear Waste and the Site of Intergenerational Responsibility
This chapter provides an outline of current practices surrounding the production and disposal of nuclear energy in the context of conceptions of...
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Young’s Social Connection Model and Corporate Responsibility
Recent structural innovations in global commerce present difficult challenges for legacy understandings of responsibility. The rise of outsourcing,...
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Feminist Perspectives on Kant’s Conception of Autonomy: On the Need to Distinguish between Self-Determination and Self-Legislation
The chapter first summarizes widely shared objections to “Kantian” notions of autonomy raised by feminist authors, discusses alternative conceptions...
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Challenges in Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: The Security Council Veto and the Need for a Common Ethical Approach
In 2005 the member states of the United Nations recognized a “responsibility to protect” (“R2P”) victims of mass atrocities such as genocide, war...
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An Anatomy of Human Dignity; Dissecting the Heart of Humanistic Management
Human dignity is introduced in the humanistic management school to distinguish humanistic from economistic perspectives on organizational business...
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The Complexity of the Modern University and the Emergence of Issues Related to Corporate Social Responsibility
This chapter outlines the issues presented in the chapters which follow in this anthology. Specifically, the chapter analyzes the complex and often...
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A Theory of True Democracy
The second chapter describes Locke’s democratic theory. I begin by separating an overarching concept of democracy from eight conceptions of...
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Expert Perceptions on Anti-bribery and Corruption Policies in Sports Governing Bodies: Implications for Ethical Climate Theory
Anti-bribery and corruption in sport governing bodies is a little explored area in academic literature. This paper addresses the gap in the...
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Ethical Debates on Global Hunger: Moral Obligations to the Distant Other and Global Justice
This chapter explores some of the debates in recent decades regarding the ethical obligation to tackle the hunger suffered in the Global South. The...
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Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility
In the light of growing political and religious fundamentalism, this open access book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to...
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Paul Ricœur: A Hermeneutic Perspective on Humanizing Business
The hermeneutic perspective of humanizing business is based on an utopian vision and ideal of politics of the realization of the “good life with and...
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Engaged Buddhism as Human Rights Ethos: the Constructivist Quest for Cosmopolitanism
As the fundamental authority of universal rights claims are contested in a declining liberal international order, constructivists seek to transcend...
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Global justice in the context of transnational surrogacy: an African bioethical perspective
The ongoing debate on how best to regulate international commercial surrogacy defies consensus, as the most cogent normative and jurisprudential...
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Vitalist Arguments in the Struggle for Human (Im)Perfection: The Debate Between Biologists and Theologians in the 1960s–1980s
In this chapter, I explore and offer critical reflections on the widespread practice of attributing negative value to “vital forces” in debates on...
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Local Agents of International Justice? On the Role of Subnational Units in Refugee Protection
Refugee protection depends, minimally, on the identification of agents capable of discharging international obligations in this area of international...
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Qualitative Freedom and Cosmopolitan Responsibility
Resting as it does on the principle of freedom, today’s global economic system is in need of a global economic ethos of responsibility so as to...