Cecile Fabre (University of Edinburgh)

Justice in a Changing World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is an accessible analysis of justice in the contemporary world. It introduces the moral debates around issues such as immigration, national self-determination and cultural rights, as well as resource transfers between generations and from rich to poor countries, through the lenses of liberalism, communitarianism, libertarianism and feminism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9780745639703
• ISBN-10: 0745639704
• Artikelnr.: 22953057

Autorenporträt

Cécile Fabre is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Setting the stage.
1. Introduction.
2. Egalitarian liberalism.
2.1. Rawls' Theory of Justice.
2.2. Egalitarian liberalism post Rawls I: luck egalitarianism.
2.3. Egalitarian liberalism post Rawls I: sufficientism.
3. The communitarian critique of Rawls: individuals and communities.
4. The libertarian critique of Rawls: justice as entitlements.
5. Themes and issues.
Chapter 2 Justice towards future generations.
1. Introduction.
2. Egalitarian liberalism and future generations.
2.1. Rawls' just savings principle.
2.2. Luck egalitarianism.
2.3. Sufficiency.
3. The transgenerational community: a source of obligations to our
successors.
4. Libertarianism and future generations.
5. Two objections to obligations to future generations.
5.1. Rights, obligations, and non-existing people.
5.2. The non-identity objection.
6. Conclusion.
Chapter 3 Multiculturalism .
1. Introduction.
2. An egalitarian liberal position: Kymlicka's defence of minority rights.
3. Communitarianism and minorities.
4. A libertarian position: Kukathas' liberal archipelago.
5. Conclusion.
Chapter 4 National self-determination.
1. Introduction.
2. Liberal nationalism.
3. Communitarianism and national self-determination.
4. Libertarianism and national self-determination.
5. Conclusion.
Chapter 5 Global distributive justice .
1. Introduction.
2. Egalitarian liberalism and global distributive justice.
2.1. Luck egalitarianism, sufficientism and the irrelevance of borders.
2.2. Egalitarian liberalism and the moral relevance of borders I: Rawls's.
Law of Peoples.
2.3. Egalitarian liberalism and the moral relevance of borders II: Nagel's.
political conception of justice.
3. Communitarianism and global distributive justice.
4. Libertarianism and global distributive justice.
5. Conclusion.
Chapter 6 Immigration .
1. Introduction.
2. An egalitarian liberal case for relatively open borders.
2.1. A Rawlsian view on immigration.
2.2. Egalitarian liberal arguments for open borders.
2.3. Open borders and distributive justice: sufficiency and immigration.
3. A communitarian position: Walzer on immigration.
4. A libertarian position: Hillel Steiner on immigration.
5. Who should take in immigrants?.
6. Conclusion.
Chapter 7 Reparation for past injustices.
1. Introduction.
2. Egalitarian liberalism and reparative justice.
2.1. Luck egalitarianism, sufficientism, and reparations.
2.2. Refining the egalitarian liberal position.
3. Communitarianism and reparations.
3.1. The transgenerational community: in defence of reparations.
3.2. Judging the past: a very limited defence of reparations.
4. Libertarianism and reparations.
5. Conclusion.
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Conclusion.
Works cited