Just Responsibility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Responsibility write by Brooke A. Ackerly. This book was released on 2018. Just Responsibility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It has been well-established that many of the injustices that people around the world experience every day, from food insecurity to unsafe labor conditions and natural disasters, are the result of wide-scale structural problems of politics and economics. These are not merely random personal problems or consequences of bad luck or bad planning. Confronted by this fact, it is natural to ask what should or can we do to mitigate everyday injustices? In one sense, we answer this question when we buy the local homeless street newspaper, decide where to buy our clothes, remember our reusable bags when we shop, donate to disaster relief, or send letters to corporations about labor rights. But given the global scale of injustices related to poverty, environmental change, gender, and labor, can these individual acts really impact the seemingly intractable global social, political, and economic structures that perpetuate and exacerbate them? Moreover, can we respond to injustices in the world in ways that do more than just address their consequences? In this book, Brooke A. Ackerly both answers the question of what should we do, and shows that it's the wrong question to ask. To ask the right question, we need to ground our normative theory of global justice in the lived experience of injustice. Using a feminist critical methodology, she argues that what to do about injustice is not just an ethical or moral question, but a political question about assuming responsibility for injustice, regardless of our causal responsibility and extent of our knowledge of the injustice. Furthermore, it is a matter that needs to be guided by principles of human rights. As she argues, while many understand human rights as political goals or entitlements, they can also guide political strategy. Her aims are twofold: to present a theory of what it means to take responsibility for injustice and for ensuring human rights, as well as to develop a guide for how to take responsibility in ways that support local and global movements for transformative politics. In order to illustrate her theory and guide for action, Ackerly draws on fieldwork on the Rana Plaza collapse in 2013, the food crisis of 2008, and strategies from 125 activist organizations working on women's and labor rights across 26 countries. Just Responsibility integrates these ways of taking political responsibility into a rich theory of political community, accountability, and leadership in which taking responsibility for injustice itself transforms the fabric of political life.
National Responsibility and Global Justice
National Responsibility and Global Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook National Responsibility and Global Justice write by David Miller. This book was released on 2007-11-22. National Responsibility and Global Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Steering a middle course between cosmopolitanism and a narrow nationalism, the book develops an original theory of global justice that also addresses controversial topics such as immigration and reparations for historic wrongdoing.
Responsibility from the Margins
Responsibility from the Margins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Responsibility from the Margins write by David Shoemaker. This book was released on 2015. Responsibility from the Margins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. David Shoemaker develops a novel pluralistic theory of responsibility, motivated by our ambivalence to cases of marginal agency--such as those caused by clinical depression or autism, for instance. He identifies three distinct types of responsibility, each with its own set of required capacities: attributability, answerability, and accountability.
Expanding Responsibility for the Just War
Expanding Responsibility for the Just War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Expanding Responsibility for the Just War write by Rosemary Kellison. This book was released on 2018-11-29. Expanding Responsibility for the Just War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This feminist critique of just war reasoning argues for an expansion of responsibility for harms inflicted on civilians in war.
Against Moral Responsibility
Against Moral Responsibility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Against Moral Responsibility write by Bruce N. Waller. This book was released on 2011-10-14. Against Moral Responsibility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A vigorous attack on moral responsibility in all its forms argues that the abolition of moral responsibility will be liberating and beneficial. In Against Moral Responsibility, Bruce Waller launches a spirited attack on a system that is profoundly entrenched in our society and its institutions, deeply rooted in our emotions, and vigorously defended by philosophers from ancient times to the present. Waller argues that, despite the creative defenses of it by contemporary thinkers, moral responsibility cannot survive in our naturalistic-scientific system. The scientific understanding of human behavior and the causes that shape human character, he contends, leaves no room for moral responsibility. Waller argues that moral responsibility in all its forms—including criminal justice, distributive justice, and all claims of just deserts—is fundamentally unfair and harmful and that its abolition will be liberating and beneficial. What we really want—natural human free will, moral judgments, meaningful human relationships, creative abilities—would survive and flourish without moral responsibility. In the course of his argument, Waller examines the origins of the basic belief in moral responsibility, proposes a naturalistic understanding of free will, offers a detailed argument against moral responsibility and critiques arguments in favor of it, gives a general account of what a world without moral responsibility would look like, and examines the social and psychological aspects of abolishing moral responsibility. Waller not only mounts a vigorous, and philosophically rigorous, attack on the moral responsibility system, but also celebrates the benefits that would result from its total abolition.
