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  • The Pivotal Generation

    Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now

    by Henry Shue ...
    An eminent philosopher explains why we owe it to future generations to take immediate action on global warmingClimate change is the supreme challenge of our time. Yet despite growing international recognition of the unfolding catastrophe, global carbon emissions continue to rise, hitting an all-time high in 2019. Unless humanity rapidly transitions to renewable energy, it may be too late to stop ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Climate Justice

    Vulnerability and Protection

    by Henry Shue ...
    The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the tangled questions of justice between nations and justice across generations confronting all attempts at international cooperation in controlling climate change sharply crystallize the central choices ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Fighting Hurt

    Rule and Exception in Torture and War

    by Henry Shue ...
    Some of our most fundamental moral rules are violated by the practices of torture and war. If one examines the concrete forms these practices take, can the exceptions to the rules necessary to either torture or war be justified? Fighting Hurt brings together key essays by Henry Shue on the issue of torture, and relatedly, the moral challenges surrounding the initiation and conduct of war, and ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Climate Ethics

    Essential Readings

    Edited by Stephen Gardiner, Simon Caney, Dale Jamieson, Henry Shue ...
    This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve as a source book for general reference, and for university courses that include a focus on the ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Basic Rights

    Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy: 40th Anniversary Edition

    by Henry Shue ...
    An expanded and updated edition of a classic work on human rights and global justiceSince its original publication, Basic Rights has proven increasingly influential to those working in political philosophy, human rights, global justice, and the ethics of international relations and foreign policy, particularly in debates regarding foreign policy’s role in alleviating global poverty. Henry Shue ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Climate Ethics

    Essential Readings

    Edited by Stephen Gardiner, Simon Caney, Dale Jamieson, Henry Shue ...
    This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve as a source book for general reference, and for university courses that include a focus on the ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Climate Justice

    Integrating Economics and Philosophy

    Edited by Ravi Kanbur, Henry Shue ...
    Climate justice requires sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its resolution equitably and fairly. It brings together justice between generations and justice within generations. In particular it requires that attempts to address justice between generations through various interventions designed to curb greenhouse emissions today do not end up creating injustice in our time by ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The American Way of Bombing

    Changing Ethical and Legal Norms, from Flying Fortresses to Drones

    Edited by Matthew Evangelista, Henry Shue ...
    Aerial bombardment remains important to military strategy, but the norms governing bombing and the harm it imposes on civilians have evolved. The past century has seen everything from deliberate attacks against rebellious villagers by Italian and British colonial forces in the Middle East to scrupulous efforts to avoid "collateral damage" in the counterinsurgency and antiterrorist wars of today. ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Just and Unjust Warriors : The Moral and Legal Status of Soldiers

    The Moral and Legal Status of Soldiers

    by David Rodin ; Henry Shue ...
    Can a soldier be held responsible for fighting in a war that is illegal or unjust? This is the question at the heart of a new debate that has the potential to profoundly change our understanding of the moral and legal status of warriors, wars, and indeed of moral agency itself. The debate pits a widely shared and legally entrenched principle of war-that combatants have equal rights and equal ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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  • Ethics and War

    An Introduction

    by Steven P. Lee ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    What are the ethical principles underpinning the idea of a just war and how should they be adapted to changing social and military circumstances? In this book, Steven P. Lee presents the basic principles of just war theory, showing how they evolved historically and how they are applied today in global relations. He examines the role of state sovereignty and individual human rights in the moral ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Universal Human Rights

    Moral Order in a Divided World

    by Kenneth Henley, Alistair Macleod, Rex Martin, David Duquette, Lucinda Peach, William Nelson, Jonathan Schonsheck, Larry May, Helen Stacy, Suzy Kim, Stephen Nathanson ...
    Series series Philosophy and the Global Context
    Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and highly contested concept universal human rights. The Charter of the United Nations commits nearly all nations of the world to promote, to realize and take action to achieve human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, yet this formal consensus masks an underlying confusion about the philosophical basis and practical implications of ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Terrorism, Security and Nationality

    An Introductory Study in Applied Political Philosophy

    by Paul Gilbert ...
    Terrorism, Security and Nationality shows how the ideas and techniques of political philosophy can be applied to the practical problems of terrorism, State violence and national identity. In doing so it clarifies a wide range of issues in applied political philosophy including ethics of war; theories of state and nation; the relationship between communities and nationalisms; human rightss and ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD