Henry Greyson Shue (born March 24, 1940) is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at
Merton College
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of
Oxford University
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. Previously he was
Wyn and William Y Hutchinson Professor of Ethics & Public Life at
Cornell University
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. Shue is best known for his book, ''Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy''.
Books
* ''Basic Rights'' (Princeton 1980; 2nd edition, 1996)
* ''Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection''
* ''Fighting Hurt: Rule and Exception in Torture and War''
Edited Books
* ''Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification'', co-edited with David Rodin, Oxford University Press, 2010,
* ''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''
* ''The Border That Joins: Mexican Migrants & U. S. Responsibility'' (Maryland Studies in Public Philosophy)
* ''Pivotal generation : Why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now. Oxford University Press, 2021. (ISBN: 9780691220062)
See also
*Preventive war
*Preemptive war
*distributive justice
*international normative theory
References
External links
Henry Shue at Oxford
American philosophers
Analytic philosophers
Political philosophers
Moral philosophers
Philosophy academics
Living people
1940 births
Cornell University faculty
Fellows of Merton College, Oxford
American expatriates in the United Kingdom
Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
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