Justice across boundaries : whose obligations? / Onora O'Neill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Neill, Onora, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--Moral and ethical aspects.

International relations.

Justice (Philosophy).

Distributive justice.

Transitional justice.

Human rights.

Globalization--Moral and ethical aspects.

Globalization.

Globalization--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

vii, 243 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Who ought to do what, and for whom, if global justice is to progress? In this collection of essays on justice beyond borders, Onora O'Neill criticises theoretical approaches that concentrate on rights, yet ignore both the obligations that must be met to realise those rights, and the capacities needed by those who shoulder these obligations. She notes that states are profoundly anti-cosmopolitan institutions, and that even those committed to justice and universal rights often lack the competence and the will to secure them, let alone to secure them beyond their borders. She argues for a wider conception of global justice, in which obligations may be held either by states or by competent non-state actors, and in which borders themselves must meet standards of justice. This rich and wide-ranging collection will appeal to a wide range of academic researchers and advanced students of political philosophy, political theory, international relations and philosophy of law"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Hunger across Boundaries: 1. Lifeboat Earth; 2. Rights, obligations and world hunger; 3. Rights to compensation; Part II. Justifications across Boundaries: 4. Justice and boundaries; 5. Ethical reasoning and ideological pluralism; 6. Bounded and cosmopolitan justice; 7. Pluralism, positivism and the justification of human rights; Part III. Action across Boundaries: 8. From Edmund Burke to twenty-first-century human rights: abstraction, circumstances and globalisation; 9. From statist to global conceptions of justice; 10. Global justice: whose obligations?; 11. Agents of justice; 12. The dark side of human rights; Part IV. Health across Boundaries: 13. Public health or clinical ethics: thinking beyond borders; 14. Broadening bioethics: clinical ethics, public health and global health; Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107116306

1107116309

9781107538177

1107538173

OCLC:

918616443

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