Boundaries and justice : diverse ethical perspectives / edited by David Miller and Sohail H. Hashmi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, David, 1946-

Hashmi, Sohail H., 1962-

Series:

Ethikon series in comparative ethics

The Ethikon series in comparative ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

xi, 367 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2001]

Summary:

Despite the supreme political and economic significance of boundaries--and ongoing challenges to existing national boundaries--scant attention has been paid to their ethics. This volume explores how diverse ethical traditions understand the political and property rights reflected in territorial and jurisdictional boundaries. It is the first book to bring together thinkers from a range of traditions, both religious and secular, to discuss the ethics of boundaries.

Each contributor represents a tradition's views on questions surrounding the use of boundaries to delimit property and political rights. What does it mean to own something? What resources should not be privately owned? What justifies the erection of political boundaries between one people and another? How "hard" should such boundaries be? What rights extend to minorities within a state? Should territorial boundaries coincide with social ones? Does national autonomy have an ethical basis, or is it an aspect of modern power politics? Should we aim for a more inclusive community than that afforded by modern nation-states? Cross-chapter dialogue and a substantive conclusion draw out similarities and differences among the traditions represented, traditions that include Christianity, classical liberalism, Confucianism, international law, Islam, Judaism, liberal egalitarianism, and natural law.

Contents:

Christian attitudes toward boundaries: metaphysical and geographical / Richard B. Miller

The value of limited loyalty: Christianity, the nation, and territorial boundaries / Nigel Biggar

Toward a liberal theory of national boundaries / Loren Lomasky

Hard orders, compensation, and classical liberalism / Hillel Steiner

Territorial boundaries and Confucianism / Joseph Chan

Boundaries of the body and body politic in early Confucian thought / Michael Nylan

International law, boundaries, and imagination / Robert McCorquodale

Territorial sovereignty, command, title, and the expanding claims of the commons / Raul C. Pangalangan

Islamic perspective on territorial boundaries and autonomy / M. Raquibuz Zaman

Religion and the maintenance of boundaries: an Islamic view / Sulayman Nyang

Land and people: one Jewish perspective / David Novak

Contested boundaries: Judaic visions of a shared world / Naom J. Zohar

Territorial boundaries: a liberal egalitarian perspective / Will Kymlicka

Group boundaries, individual barriers / Russell Hardin

Boundaries, ownership, and autonomy: a natural law perspective / Joseph Boyle

In defense of reasonable lines: natural law from a natural rights perspective / Jeremy Tabkin

The ethics of boundaries: a question of partial commitments / Daniel Philpott.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0691087997

0691088004

OCLC:

46240287