Are wealthy countries' duties towards developing countries grounded in justice or in weaker concerns of charity? Justice in a Globalized World offers bothan in-depth critique of the most prominent philosophical answers to this question, and a distinctive approach for addressing it. While the lives of millions of people are overshadowed by poverty and destitution, a relatively small subset of the world's population enjoys an unprecedented level of wealth. No doubt the world's rich have duties to address the plight of the global poor. But should we think of these as duties of egalitarian justice much like those applying domestically, or as weaker duties of humanitarian assistance? In this book, Laura Valentini offers an in-depth critique of the two mostprominent answers to this question, cosmopolitanism and statism, and developsa novel normative framework for addressing it. Central to this framework is the idea that, unlike duties of assistance - which bind us to help the needy - duties of justice place constraints on the ways we may legitimately coerceone another. Since coercion exists domestically as well as internationally, duties of justice apply to both realms. The forms of coercion characterizing these two realms, however, differ, and so the content of duties of justice varies across them. Valentini concludes that given the nature of existing international coercion, global justice requires more than statist assistance, yet less than full cosmopolitan equality. INDICE: Introduction: The Problem of Global Justice Part I: Cosmopolitanism Assessing the Cosmopolitan Ideal Justifying Cosmopolitanism Part II: StatismAssessing the Statist Ideal Justifying Statism Part III: A Normative Framework The Function of Justice The Content of Justice The Scope of Justice Conclusion Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959385-9
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 22/12/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés