Taking the Human out of Human Rights

Rawls's Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia?

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 150-168

  Buchanan, Allen ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Command system; Parochialism; Pluralism; Political conceptions; Systematic discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891305151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470776612.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

References (15)

1. James Nickel, in a paper in this volume.
2. John Rawls, The Law of Peoples, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999, p. 65.
3. The labels for these lines of argument are mine, not Rawls's.
4. Rawls, Law of Peoples, p. 68.
5. John Rawls, Political Liberalism, New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1993, p. 13.
6. I develop this line of criticism in detail in "Justice, Legitimacy, and Human Rights," The Idea of Political Liberalism: Essays on Rawls, ed. Victoria Davion and Clark Wolf, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000, pp. 73-89.
7. Rawls, Law of Peoples, p. 68.
8. Rawls, Law of Peoples, p. 68.
9. Fernando Teson, A Philosophy of International Law, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998, pp. 109-22;
10. Darrel Moellendorf, Cosmopolitan Justice, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002, pp. 7-29;
11. Kok-Chor Tan, Toleration, Diversity, and Global Justice, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, pp. 19-45.
12. Rawls, Law of Peoples, p. 80.
13. Allen Buchanan, "Rawls's Law of Peoples: Rules for a Vanished Westphalian World,"
14. Ethics, 110/4 (2000): 697-721.
15. Rawls, Law of Peoples, p. 82.