Rawls's Law of Peoples A Realistic Utopia?

by Martin, Rex; Reidy, David A.

• ISBN13: 9781405135313
• ISBN10: 140513531X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume examines Rawls's theory of international justice as worked out in his controversial last book, The Law of Peoples.

Author Biography

Rex Martin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University. His most recent books are A System of Rights (1997) and a revised edition of R.G. Collingwood's An Essay on Metaphysics (2002).

David Reidy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of many articles and chapters in political philosophy and the philosophy of law and on Rawls in particular. He is the co-editor, with Mortimer Sellers, of Universal Human Rights: Moral Order in a Divided World (2005).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. x
Preface	p. xv
List of Abbreviations	p. xviii
Background the Structure	p. 1
Introduction: Reading Rawls's The Law of Peoples	p. 3
Uniting What Right Permits with What Interest Prescribes: Rawls's Law of Peoples in Context	p. 19
Rawls's Peoples	p. 38
Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Universalism: Questions of Priority and Coherence	p. 57
Cultural Imperialism and 'Democratic Peace'	p. 59
The Problem of Decent Peoples	p. 76
Why Rawls is Not a Cosmopolitan Egalitarian	p. 95
On Human Rights	p. 115
Human Rights as Moral Claim Rights	p. 117
Rawls's Narrow Doctrine of Human Rights	p. 134
Taking the Human out of Human Rights	p. 150
Political Authority and Human Rights	p. 169
On Global Economic Justice	p. 189
Collective Responsibility and International Inequality in The Law of Peoples	p. 191
Do Rawls's Two Theories of Justice Fit Together?	p. 206
Rawls on International Distributive Economic Justice: Taking a Closer Look	p. 226
Distributive Justice and The Law of Peoples	p. 243
On Liberal Democratic Foreign Policy	p. 261
Are Human Rights Mainly Implemented by Intervention?	p. 263
A Human Right to Democracy? Legitimacy and Intervention	p. 278
Justice, Stability, and Toleration in a Federation of Well-Ordered Peoples	p. 299
Index	p. 318
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