Justice in a Changing World

by Fabre, Cecile

• ISBN13: 9780745639703
• ISBN10: 0745639704
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-01
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Setting the Stage	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Egalitarian liberalism	p. 3
Rawls's theory of justice	p. 3
Egalitarian liberalism after Rawls, I: luck egalitarianism	p. 6
Egalitarian liberalism after Rawls, II: sufficientism	p. 12
The communitarian critique of Rawls: individuals and communities	p. 15
Thinking about justice	p. 15
Individuals and communities	p. 17
Justice and rights	p. 18
Rawls's response: political liberalism	p. 19
The libertarian critique of Rawls: justice as entitlements	p. 21
Themes and issues	p. 26
Justice towards Future Generations	p. 28
Introduction	p. 28
Egalitarian liberalism and future generations	p. 31
Rawls's just savings principle	p. 31
Luck egalitarianism	p. 35
Sufficiency	p. 36
The transgenerational community: a source of obligations to our successors	p. 39
Libertarianism and future generations	p. 41
Future generations and the non-identity objection	p. 45
Conclusion	p. 50
Multiculturalism	p. 51
Introduction	p. 51
An egalitarian liberal position: Kymlicka's defence of minority rights	p. 52
Communitarianism and minorities	p. 62
A libertarian position: Kukathas's liberal archipelago	p. 65
Conclusion	p. 72
National Self-Determination	p. 74
Introduction	p. 74
Liberal nationalism	p. 77
Self-determination claims	p. 77
Territorial claims	p. 82
Communitarianism and national self-determination	p. 84
Self-determination claims	p. 84
Territorial claims	p. 87
Libertarianism and national self-determination	p. 88
Self-determination claims	p. 88
Territorial claims	p. 90
Conclusion	p. 94
Global Distributive Justice	p. 95
Introduction	p. 95
Egalitarian liberalism and global distributive justice	p. 97
Luck egalitarianism, sufficientism, and the irrelevance of borders	p. 97
Egalitarian liberalism and the moral relevance of borders, I: Rawls's Law of Peoples	p. 103
Egalitarian liberalism and the moral relevance of borders, II: Nagel's political conception of justice	p. 105
Communitarianism and global distributive justice	p. 106
A libertarian position: Hillel Steiner on global distributive justice	p. 110
Conclusion	p. 112
Immigration	p. 113
Introduction	p. 113
An egalitarian liberal case for relatively open borders	p. 116
A Rawlsian view on immigration	p. 116
Egalitarian liberal arguments for open borders	p. 119
Open borders and distributive justice: sufficiency and immigration	p. 121
A communitarian position: Walzer on immigration	p. 124
A libertarian position: Hillel Steiner on immigration	p. 127
Who should take in immigrants?	p. 130
Conclusion	p. 132
Reparative Justice	p. 133
Introduction	p. 133
Egalitarian liberalism and reparative justice	p. 137
Luck egalitarianism, sufficientism, and reparations	p. 137
Refining the position	p. 140
Communitarianism and reparative justice: a mixed view	p. 150
The communitarian transgenerational community: in defence of reparations	p. 150
Judging the past: a very limited defence of reparations	p. 152
Libertarianism and reparative justice	p. 155
Conclusion	p. 161
Conclusion	p. 162
References	p. 164
Index	p. 171
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