Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books

Mancilla, Alejandra. The Right of Necessity: Moral Cosmopolitanism and Global Poverty. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016.

Shue, Henry. Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence and American Foreign Policy. Second edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

 

Articles and book chapters

Grotius, Hugo. The Rights of War and Peace. Book II. Edited by Richard Tuck. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005. Chapter 2, pp. 420-53. http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/grotius-the-rights-of-war-and-peace-2005-ed-vol-2-book-ii

Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Peter Laslett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Second Treatise, Chapters I-V. http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/locke-the-two-treatises-of-civil-government-hollis-ed

Mancilla, Alejandra. “What We Own Before Property: Hugo Grotius and the Suum.” Grotiana 36, no. 1 (2015): 63–77. http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/18760759-03600006

O’Neill, Onora. “Rights, Obligations and Needs.” In Necessary Goods, edited by Gillian Brock, 95–112. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. Originally published in Logos 6 (1985): 29–47.

Pogge, Thomas. “Recognized and Violated by International Law: The Human Rights of the Global Poor.” Leiden Journal of International Law 18, no. 4 (2005): 717–45. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156505002980

Risse, Mathias. “Do We Owe the Global Poor Assistance or Rectification?” Ethics and International Affairs 19, no. 1 (2005): 9–18. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-7093.2005.tb00485.x/full

Satz, Debra. “What Do We Owe the Global Poor?” Ethics and International Affairs 19, no. 1 (2005): 47–54. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-7093.2005.tb00489.x/full

Simmons, A John. The Lockean Theory of Rights. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Chapter 2.

Tasioulas, John. “The Moral Reality of Human Rights.” In Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right, edited by Thomas Pogge. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001518/151826e.pdf

Wenar, Leif. “Rights.” Edited by Edward N. Zalta. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2015/entries/rights/

 

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