Henry Shue

Henry Shue
Born	(1940-03-24) March 24, 1940 (age 85) [1]
Philosophical work
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Institutions	Merton College
Doctoral students	Seth Lazar
Main interests	political philosophy, moral philosophy

Henry Greyson Shue (born March 24, 1940) is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at Merton College of Oxford University. Previously he was Wyn and William Y Hutchinson Professor of Ethics & Public Life at Cornell University. Shue is best known for his book, Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy . ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Books

• Basic Rights (Princeton 1980; 2nd edition, 1996) ISBN   9780691029290
• Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection
• Fighting Hurt: Rule and Exception in Torture and War
• The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now. Princeton University Press, 2021. ( ISBN   9780691220062)

Edited books

• Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification, co-edited with David Rodin, Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN   9780199565993
• Nuclear Deterrence and Moral Restraint: Critical Choices for American Strategy (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)
• Climate Ethics: Essential Readings
• The American Way of Bombing: Changing Ethical and Legal Norms, from Flying Fortresses to Drones
• Just and Unjust Warriors: The Moral and Legal Status of Soldiers
• Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy (co-edited with Ravi Kanbur). Oxford University Press, 2019.
• The Border That Joins: Mexican Migrants & U. S. Responsibility (Maryland Studies in Public Philosophy)

See also

• Preventive war
• Preemptive war
• distributive justice
• international normative theory

References

1. Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 535.
2. Payne, Michael (June 2008). "Henry Shue on Basic Rights". Essays in Philosophy . 9 (2): 220–227. doi:10.5840/eip2008923. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
3. Kiper, Jordan (2 April 2011). "Henry Shue on Basic Rights: A Defense". Human Rights Review . 12 (4): 505–514. doi:10.1007/s12142-011-0197-8. ISSN   1524-8879. S2CID   144805723.
4. Wellman, Carl (1981). "Review of Basic Rights". Human Rights Quarterly . 3 (3): 144–147. doi:10.2307/761904. JSTOR   761904. S2CID   219034937.
5. Ashford, Elizabeth (December 2009). "In What Sense Is the Right to Subsistence a Basic Right?". Journal of Social Philosophy . 40 (4): 488–503. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9833.2009.01467.x. ISSN   0047-2786.

External links

• Henry Shue at Oxford