The practices of global ethics : historical backgrounds, current issues and future prospects

Bird, Frederick B. (Frederick Bruce) 1938- (author.). Grelle, Bruce, (author.). Miller, Clark A., (author.). Pedersen, Kusumita Priscilla, 1946- (author.). Twiss, Sumner B., (author.).

Summary: The Practices of Global Ethics takes a unique look at global ethics: not as mere written statements but as a set of practices undertaken by thousands of organisations and hundreds of thousands of people to shape the normative trajectory of human affairs. It looks at statements of global ethical principles including The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Earth Charter and the Rio Documents and positions them as the outcomes and expression of ongoing practices. Offering innovative, critical and thoughtful analyses of ethical practices since World War II, the book examines efforts to prom.

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Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

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