Do Rawls's Two Theories of Justice Fit Together?

Rawls's Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia?

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 206-225

  Pogge, Thomas ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basic liberties; European union; International justice; Social justice; United states

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891293191     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470776612.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

References (11)

1. Citing Rawls's works in the text, I use TJ for his A Theory of Justice, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999 (1971); PL for his Political Liberalism, New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1996 (1993)
2. LoP for his The Law of Peoples, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
3. Immanuel Kant, "Perpetual Peace," in Kant's Political Writings, ed. Hans Reiss, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, p. 113.
4. Normative individualism is the view that, in settling moral questions, only the interests of individual human beings should count.
5. John Rawls, "The Law of Peoples" (1993 essay version, reprinted), in his Collected Papers, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999, p. 530.
6. See LoP, p. 37. The eighth law, postulating this duty of assistance, was not listed in the earlier essay, "The Law of Peoples," Collected Papers, p. 540, n. 5.
7. Rawls, "The Law of Peoples," Collected Papers, p. 559.
8. See WHO, World Health Report 2004, Geneva: WHO, 2004, pp. 120-5
9. UNICEF, The State of the World's Children 2005, New York, NY: UNICEF, 2005, inside front cover.
10. See, for example, Alan Patten, "Should We Stop Thinking About Poverty in Terms of Helping the Poor?," Ethics and International Affairs, 19 (2005): 19-28, at 24.
11. See "An Egalitarian Law of Peoples," Section IV.