What obligations do the world's wealthy people have to ensure that the world's poor achieve a quality of life that is recognisably human? This is the fundamental question of international distributive justice. The author outlines and analyses the relative merits of the core moral perspectives framing the debates, including the universalist, nationalist, patriotism and relativist. The author then goes on to answer the nationalist, patriotic, relativist, and constitutive challenges to moral universalism by defending a commitment to basic human rights, arguing a moral case for change in the current international system. Charles Jones argues that a form on cosmopolitanism, based on the notion of universal basic human rights, is the most philosophically and morally convincing argument.
- ISBN10 0198294808
- ISBN13 9780198294801
- Publish Date 1 October 1999 (first published 1 January 1999)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 February 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 298
- Language English