Justice in a changing world / Cecile Fabre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fabre, Cécile.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justice.

Political ethics.

Physical Description:

ix, 174 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Polity, 2007.

Summary:

Should governments give special rights to ethnic and cultural minorities? Should rich countries open their borders to economic immigrants or transfer resources to poor countries? When framing and implementing economic and environmental policies, should current generations take into account the interests of future generations? If our political community committed a wrong against another group a hundred years ago, do we owe reparations to current members of that group?

These are just some of the pressing questions which are fully explored in this accessible new analysis of justice in the contemporary world. They force us to reconsider the extent of our obligations to our fellow citizens, future generations and foreigners. The book introduces the moral debates around issues such as immigration, national self-determination, cultural rights and reparations, as well as resource transfers from one generation to the next and from rich to poor countries, through the lenses of liberalism, communitarianism and libertarianism. In so doing, it helps to unravel the complexity of key ethical dilemmas facing us today. Justice in a Changing World will be a valuable resource for students of political theory, and will appeal to anyone wishing to reflect on their deepest values and commitments by putting them to the test of practical politics.

Contents:

2 Egalitarian liberalism 3

2.1 Rawls's theory of justice 3

2.2 Egalitarian liberalism after Rawls, I: luck egalitarianism 6

2.3 Egalitarian liberalism after Rawls, II: sufficientism 12

3 The communitarian critique of Rawls: individuals and communities 15

3.1 Thinking about justice 15

3.2 Individuals and communities 17

3.3 Justice and rights 18

3.4 Rawls's response: political liberalism 19

4 The libertarian critique of Rawls: justice as entitlements 21

5 Themes and issues 26

2 Justice towards Future Generations 28

2 Egalitarian liberalism and future generations 31

2.1 Rawls's just savings principle 31

2.2 Luck egalitarianism 35

2.3 Sufficiency 36

3 The transgenerational community: a source of obligations to our successors 39

4 Libertarianism and future generations 41

5 Future generations and the non-identity objection 45

3 Multiculturalism 51

2 An egalitarian liberal position: Kymlicka's defence of minority rights 52

3 Communitarianism and minorities 62

4 A libertarian position: Kukathas's liberal archipelago 65

4 National Self-Determination 74

2 Liberal nationalism 77

2.1 Self-determination claims 77

2.2 Territorial claims 82

3 Communitarianism and national self-determination 84

3.1 Self-determination claims 84

3.2 Territorial claims 87

4 Libertarianism and national self-determination 88

4.1 Self-determination claims 88

4.2 Territorial claims 90

5 Global Distributive Justice 95

2 Egalitarian liberalism and global distributive justice 97

2.1 Luck egalitarianism, sufficientism, and the irrelevance of borders 97

2.2 Egalitarian liberalism and the moral relevance of borders, I: Rawls's Law of Peoples 103

2.3 Egalitarian liberalism and the moral relevance of borders, II: Nagel's political conception of justice 105

3 Communitarianism and global distributive justice 106

4 A libertarian position: Hillel Steiner on global distributive justice 110

6 Immigration 113

2 An egalitarian liberal case for relatively open borders 116

2.1 A Rawlsian view on immigration 116

2.2 Egalitarian liberal arguments for open borders 119

2.3 Open borders and distributive justice: sufficiency and immigration 121

3 A communitarian position: Walzer on immigration 124

4 A libertarian position: Hillel Steiner on immigration 127

5 Who should take in immigrants? 130

7 Reparative Justice 133

2 Egalitarian liberalism and reparative justice 137

2.1 Luck egalitarianism, sufficientism, and reparations 137

2.2 Refining the position 140

3 Communitarianism and reparative justice: a mixed view 150

3.1 The communitarian transgenerational community: in defence of reparations 150

3.2 Judging the past: a very limited defence of reparations 152

4 Libertarianism and reparative justice 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780745639697

0745639690

0745639704

9780745639703

OCLC:

153576383