Global Justice without an end?
dc.contributor.author | Tasioulas, John | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-08T22:14:21Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
dc.date.updated | 2016-02-24T08:04:40Z | |
dc.description.abstract | John Rawls argued in The Law of Peoples that we should reject any principle of international distributive justice, whether in ideal theory or nonideal theory. Instead, he advocated a duty of assistance on the part of well-ordered societies toward burdened societies. I argue that Rawls is correct that we should endorse a principle with a target and cut-off point rather than a principle of international distributive justice. But the target and cut-off point he favors is too undemanding, because it can be met by assisting a burdened society to become a decent people. Instead, only a society that respects the right to an adequate standard of living, and not simply a right to subsistence, can be an acceptable target. Rawls is prevented from drawing this conclusion by a failure to disentangle issues of intervention and assistance, a failure bound up with his flawed, intervention-driven account of human rights in defining a decent people. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0026-1068 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/30200 | |
dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Ltd | |
dc.source | Metaphilosophy | |
dc.subject | Keywords: Distributive justice; Duty of assistance; Human rights; International justice; Intervention; Self-determination; Standard of living | |
dc.title | Global Justice without an end? | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 29 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 3 | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Tasioulas, John, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU | |
local.contributor.authoremail | repository.admin@anu.edu.au | |
local.contributor.authoruid | Tasioulas, John, u4442493 | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.absfor | 080606 - Global Information Systems | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | a240288xPUB72 | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 36 | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-61049090418 | |
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | a240288 | |
local.type.status | Published Version |
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