Global justice : defending cosmopolitanism
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Global justice : defending cosmopolitanism
Oxford University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
What obligations do the world's wealthy people have to ensure that the world's poor achieve a quality of life that is recognisably human? This is the fundamental question of international distributive justice. The author outlines and analyses the relative merits of the core moral perspectives framing the debates, including the universalist, nationalist, patriotism and relativist. The author then goes on to answer the nationalist, patriotic, relativist, and constitutive challenges to moral universalism by defending a commitment to basic human rights, arguing a moral case for change in the current international system. Charles Jones argues that a form on cosmopolitanism, based on the notion of universal basic human rights, is the most philosophically and morally convincing argument.
Table of Contents
- Distributive justice and the international context. Part 1 Cosmopolitanism: utilarianism and global justice
- basic human rights - the moral minimum
- O'Neil and the obligations of justice. Part 2 Communitarianism
- Patriotism and justice
- Miller, Nationalism, and distributive justice
- relativism, universalism, and Walzer
- neo-Hegalianism, sovereignty, and rights.
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