2014-2-PHI110-10

__NOTITLE__ Studying 2014/2 PHI110: Philosophy, Morality and Society. Week 10. Undertaken Study Period 2, 2014. Content is quoted and/or summarised from the university website in fair dealing for purpose of research or study. See also: StudyWISE and AIMS.

Global Justice

In the final section of the course we turn to a focus on contemporary problems of justice.

What is a just society? What obligations do we have to fellow citizens of our own society, and to people outside it?

Links

Herewith a list of further reading:

• Web link: Concert for Bangladesh
• Web link: UN Human Development reports (original)

Lectures

Lecturer for Section 3: Prof. Catriona Mackenzie (Lecture 20: Dr Mary Walker)

• Lecture 19
• Lecture 20

Notes

• Week 10: Lecture 19 (original)
• Week 10: Lecture 20 (original)

Questions

• Reading questions for week 10 (original)

Readings

Readings downloaded from e-Reserve.

• Singer, Peter. "Famine, affluence, and morality" Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1:3, 1972, 229-243 (original)
• Beitz, Charles R. "Does global inequality matter?" Metaphilosophy, 32:1/2, 2001, 95-112 (original)
• Pogge, Thomas Winfried Menko. "Moral universalism and global economic justice" in World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms, Pogge, Thomas Winfried Menko, 2002, 91-117 (original)

Answers

TODO: answer the reading questions.

Activities

• Self Test Quiz - Week 10 Global Justice
• Discussion forum for Week 10: Global Justice
• Week 10 review: What have you learnt? (original)

Work

TODO

Things to do, most important on top:

• Listen to the Lectures
• Read the Lecture notes
• Read the Questions
• Read the Readings
• Answer the Questions
• Do the Activities

Done

Things that are done, most recent on top:

Glossary

Herewith a list of new and/or interesting words and selected definitions: