Director

Darrel Moellendorf has directed the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs since its inception in 2002. His book Cosmopolitan Justice was published in 2002 by Westview Press. His main research interests are in political philosophy. He continues to write and pursue research on global justice, especially on global egalitarianism, justice and trade, and justice and climate change. He also works on political philosophical issues in South African constitutional jurisprudence, especially on themes of reconciliation, dignity, hope, and the nature of socio-economic rights. In addition to teaching political philosophy, he also teaches courses in the history of ethics, meta-ethics, bioethics, research ethics, environmental ethics, and Kant.


A paper of Moellendorf's on the justice of the war in Afghanistan can be viewed on the web by clicking here.

Moellendorf is also a co-organizer of the mini-conference on global justice organized in conjunction with the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, 27-30 March 2004. Click here for information on the mini-conference.

And click here for an anthology of selected papers from the mini-conference.

Click here for Moellendorf’s CV.

He can be reached at dmoellen@mail.sdsu.edu .

“All the grand sources, in short, of human suffering are in a great degree, any of them almost entirely conquerable by human care and effort…every mind sufficiently intelligent and generous to bear a part, however small and inconspicuous, in the endeavour will draw a noble enjoyment from the conquest itself, which he would not for any bribe in the form of selfish indulgence consent to be without.”  
-- John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism