Collected here are fifteen essays about the severe poverty that today afflicts billions of human lives. The essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent. This volume derives from a UNESCO philosophy program organized in...

Human flourishing and universal justice -- How should human rights be conceived? -- Loopholes in moralities -- Moral universalism and global economic justice -- The bounds of nationalism -- Achieving democracy -- Cosmopolitanism and sovereignty -- Eradicating systemic poverty : brief for a...