International Justice and the Third World: Studies in the Philosophy of Development

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International Justice and the Third World: Studies in the Philosophy of Development

Author(s): Robin Attfield

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publication Date: September 3, 1992
  • Edition: 1st
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 220 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0415069254
  • ISBN-13: 9780415069250

Book Description

A vindication of the belief in global or universal justice, which explores both liberal and Marxist grounds for such belief. The book also looks at the obligation to cancel Third World debt.

Editorial Reviews

Review

`Papers in this volume do, however, broaden the idea of justice, and make one consider the need for it to be a global principle of ethics rather than one that is limited by national boundaries.’Bull Med Eth Feb 95

About the Author

Robin Attfield taught philosophy at Cardiff University, Wales from 1968 to 2012. He also taught at University of Ife, Nigeria, and University of Nairobi, Kenya. His books include Ethics: An Overview (2012), Environmental Ethics (2003 and 2014) and The Ethics of the Global Environment (1999; second edition forthcoming). He and his wife have three children, and are members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Barry Wilkins taught Philosophy at Cardiff University, Wales until his retirement in 2011. Also for Routledge he contributed to Noel Timms and David Watson (eds), Philosophy in Social Work. In addition to publishing articles on various issues in social and political philosophy, he has contributed research to two series of books: The Communist International in Lenin’s Time and collected speeches and writings of Malcolm X.

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