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Ethics & International Affairs

A Reader, Third Edition

by Joel H. Rosenthal, David C. Hendrickson, Neta C. Crawford, David A. Crocker, Michael J. Smith, Terry Nardin, Alex J. Bellamy, Robyn Eckersley, Allen Buchanan0, Robert O. Keohane1, Seyla Benhabib2, Alison M. Jaggar3, Joseph H. Carens4, Ethan B. Kapstein5, Robert Wade6, Leif Wenar7, Thomas Pogge8, Mathias Risse9 ...

The third edition of Ethics & International Affairs provides a fresh selection of classroom resources, ideal for courses in international relations, ethics, foreign policy, and related fields. Published with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, this collection contains some of the best contemporary scholarship on international ethics, written by a group of distinguished ... Read more

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The third edition of Ethics & International Affairs provides a fresh selection of classroom resources, ideal for courses in international relations, ethics, foreign policy, and related fields. Published with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, this collection contains some of the best contemporary scholarship on international ethics, written by a group of distinguished
... Read more
Health Rights

by Thomas Pogge ...

Series series The International Library of Essays on Rights
Health Rights is a multidisciplinary collection of seminal papers examining ethical, legal, and empirical questions regarding the human right to health or health care. The volume discusses what obligations health rights entail for governments and other actors, how they relate to and potentially conflict with other rights and values, and how cultural diversity bears on the formulation and ... Read more

$370.00 USD

Health Rights is a multidisciplinary collection of seminal papers examining ethical, legal, and empirical questions regarding the human right to health or health care. The volume discusses what obligations health rights entail for governments and other actors, how they relate to and potentially conflict with other rights and values, and how cultural diversity bears on the formulation and
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What Makes Us Human?

An Artificial Intelligence Answers Life's Biggest Questions

by Iain Thomas, GPT-3, Jasmine Wang ...

A groundbreaking endeavor to explore human spirituality through the evolving technology of artificial intelligenceWhy are we here? What does it mean to love? How do we overcome suffering? Is happiness truly possible?For thousands of years, we have turned to the same beloved texts to explore these universal questions—from the Bible and the Tao Te Ching, to the poetry of Rumi and Sappho, to the ... Read more

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A groundbreaking endeavor to explore human spirituality through the evolving technology of artificial intelligenceWhy are we here? What does it mean to love? How do we overcome suffering? Is happiness truly possible?For thousands of years, we have turned to the same beloved texts to explore these universal questions—from the Bible and the Tao Te Ching, to the poetry of Rumi and Sappho, to the
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World Poverty and Human Rights

by Thomas W. Pogge ...

Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including over 10 million children under five.However huge in human terms, the world poverty problem is tiny economically ... Read more

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Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including over 10 million children under five.However huge in human terms, the world poverty problem is tiny economically
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Child Poverty and Social Protection in Central and Western Africa

by Gustave Nébié, Thomas Pogge, Jan Vandemoortele, Shailen Nandy, Marco Pomati, Ismael Cid Martinez, Sarah Hague0, Daniela Gregr1, Edgar F.A. Cooke2, Andy McKay3, Maryam Abdu4, Aristide Kielem5, Diana Skelton6, Jacqueline Plaisir7, C. Nana Derby8, Samuel Okposin9, Shelley Okposin0, Christiana O. Adetunde1, Robert Asogwa2 ...

Series Book 5 - CROP International Poverty Studies
In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Livingstone declaration, and the UN Social Protection Floor, this book deals jointly with multi-dimensional child poverty and social protection in Western and Central Africa. It focuses both on extent and types of social protection coverage and assesses various child poverty trends in the region. More importantly, it looks at social ... Read more

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In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Livingstone declaration, and the UN Social Protection Floor, this book deals jointly with multi-dimensional child poverty and social protection in Western and Central Africa. It focuses both on extent and types of social protection coverage and assesses various child poverty trends in the region. More importantly, it looks at social
... Read more
Tackling Child Poverty in Latin America

Rights and Social Protection in Unequal Societies

by Thomas Pogge, Ana Maria Osorio Mejía, Luis Fernando Aguado Quintero, Héctor E. Nájera Catalán, Robin Cavagnoud, Jorge A. Paz, Yedith Guillén Fernández, Jorge I. Vásquez, Ianina Tunión, Agustín Salvia, Cristian Herrera, Alejandra Vives, Camila Carvallo, Helia Molina, Charles-Édouard De Suremain, Juan Antonio Vega Báez, Ma. Cristina Torrado, Ernesto Durán, Tatiana Casanova, Nelson Antequera D., Camillo Pérez Bustillo ...

Series Book 2 - CROP International Poverty Studies
This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent well-being and the issue of inclusive societies. Its goal is to promote new and critical thinking about these issues globally and in Latin America. The authors clearly emphasize the need to develop new conceptual and practical avenues that can address ... Read more

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This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent well-being and the issue of inclusive societies. Its goal is to promote new and critical thinking about these issues globally and in Latin America. The authors clearly emphasize the need to develop new conceptual and practical avenues that can address
... Read more
Moral Soundings

Readings on the Crisis of Values in Contemporary Life

by Richard Rorty, Steven Fesmire, Stanley Kurtz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jerry Weinberger, Leon Kass, Jane Smiley, Thomas Pogge, Richard Pipes, James Twitchell, David Marsland, David Bosworth, Christina Hoff Sommers, Edward W. Said, Janet C. Gornick, Isabel V. Sawhill, Albert Borgmann, Jerry L. Walls, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Cornel West ...

Moral Soundings takes a fresh new approach to introducing students and general readers to contemporary ethics. Rather than surveying the standard fare in a typical anthology format, Furrow collects diversified essays around a structured theme: does Western culture face a moral crisis of values? Prominent voices in the humanities and social sciences provide a range of perspectives on a concentrated ... Read more

$55.99 USD

Moral Soundings takes a fresh new approach to introducing students and general readers to contemporary ethics. Rather than surveying the standard fare in a typical anthology format, Furrow collects diversified essays around a structured theme: does Western culture face a moral crisis of values? Prominent voices in the humanities and social sciences provide a range of perspectives on a concentrated
... Read more
Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Critical Essays

by Paul Guyer, Paul Guyer, Henry Allison, Dieter Henrich, Barbara Herman, Thomas Hill Jr., Christine Korsgaard, Onora O'Neill, Thomas Pogge, Nelson Potter, J B. Schneewind0, Tom Sorrell1, Allen Wood2 ...

Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. This collection of essays, the first of its kind in nearly thirty years, introduces the reader to some of the most important studies of the book from the past two decades, arranged in the form of a collective commentary. ... Read more

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Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. This collection of essays, the first of its kind in nearly thirty years, introduces the reader to some of the most important studies of the book from the past two decades, arranged in the form of a collective commentary.
... Read more
Absolute Poverty and Global Justice

Empirical Data - Moral Theories - Initiatives

by Michael Schramm, Thomas Pogge ...

Series series Law, Ethics and Economics
Absolute poverty causes about one third of all human deaths, some 18 million annually, and blights billions of lives with hunger and disease. Developing universalizable norms aimed at tackling absolute poverty and the complex and multilayered problems associated with it, this book considers the levels, trends and determinants of absolute poverty and global inequality. Examining whether much faster ... Read more

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Absolute poverty causes about one third of all human deaths, some 18 million annually, and blights billions of lives with hunger and disease. Developing universalizable norms aimed at tackling absolute poverty and the complex and multilayered problems associated with it, this book considers the levels, trends and determinants of absolute poverty and global inequality. Examining whether much faster
... Read more
Politics as Usual

What Lies Behind the Pro-Poor Rhetoric

by Thomas W. Pogge ...

Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empowering human beings everywhere to enjoy security, economic sufficiency, equal citizenship, and a life in dignity. To be sure, there are some specially difficult areas disfavoured by climate, geography, local diseases, unenlightened cultures or ... Read more

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Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empowering human beings everywhere to enjoy security, economic sufficiency, equal citizenship, and a life in dignity. To be sure, there are some specially difficult areas disfavoured by climate, geography, local diseases, unenlightened cultures or
... Read more
Child Poverty, Youth (Un)Employment, and Social Inclusion

by Maria Petmesidou, Enrique Delamonica, Christos Papatheodorou, Thomas Pogge, Amélia Bastos, Stefanos Papanastasiou, Alberto Minujín, Diego Born0, María Laura Lombardía1, Luis Garrido2, Rodolfo Gutiérrez3, Ana M. Guillén4, Apostolos Dedoussopoulos5, Eva Maria Papachristopoulou6, Sofia Adam7, Catherina Schenck8, Phillip Blaauw9, Jacoba Viljoen0, I-Chie Fang1, Aldrie Henry-Lee3 ...

Series Book 1 - CROP International Poverty Studies
Worldwide child and youth poverty and deprivation remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while the recent global economic crisis has exacerbated child poverty, youth unemployment, and social exclusion in many developed countries. By critically unraveling ... Read more

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Worldwide child and youth poverty and deprivation remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while the recent global economic crisis has exacerbated child poverty, youth unemployment, and social exclusion in many developed countries. By critically unraveling
... Read more
Leaving No Child and No Adolescent Behind

A Global Perspective on Addressing Inclusion through the SDGs

by Sudeshna Chatterjee, Sudeshna Chatterjee, Thomas Pogge, Alberto Minujin, Katie Hodgkinson, Samantha Cocco-Klein, Tomoo Okubo, Ana Maria Restrepo0, Chirawat Poonsab1, Christina Popivanova2, Nicky Pouw3, Marielle L.J. Le Mat4, Jennifer Seager5, Sarah Baird6, Joan Hamory Hicks7, Sabina Faiz Rashid8, Maheen Sultan9, Workneh Yadete0, Nicola Jones1, Ernest Darkwah2, Marguerite Daniel3, Anna Carolina Machado4, Charlotte Bilo5, Ismael Cid Martinez6, Enrique Delamonica7, Jose Luis Espinoza Delgado8, Aristide Kielem9, Mohamed Obaidy0, Martin Hayes1, Melissa Kelly2, Darcy Strouse3 ...

Series Book 8 - CROP International Poverty Studies
The future of our world over the next decade is being shaped by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that seek to uphold children’s wellbeing and, by their call to leave no one behind and to reach the furthest behind first, shine a spotlight on the world’s most vulnerable populations including children and adolescents living in poverty and exclusion. The transformative steps promised in the ... Read more

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The future of our world over the next decade is being shaped by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that seek to uphold children’s wellbeing and, by their call to leave no one behind and to reach the furthest behind first, shine a spotlight on the world’s most vulnerable populations including children and adolescents living in poverty and exclusion. The transformative steps promised in the
... Read more

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