Distributive Justice and the Law of Peoples

Rawls's Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia?

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 243-260

  Freeman, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basic liberties; Economic institutions; Liberal societies; Political liberalism; Social norms

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EID: 84891318520     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470776612.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

References (11)

1. The extent and powers of global institutions are greatly exaggerated in my view by Rawls's cosmopolitan critics.
2. See for example K. C. Tan, Justice Without Borders, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 34 -5.
3. Much of Thomas Pogge's case for global distribution depends also on abject world poverty. See his World Poverty and Human Rights, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002.
4. "One aim of the law of nations is to assure the recognition of these [natural] duties in the conduct of states" (TJ: 99).
5. "Thus the complete statement of the difference principle includes the savings principle as a constraint" (TJ: 258).
6. Thomas Pogge, "Rawls on International Justice," The Philosophical Quarterly, 51/4 (April 2001): 246-53, at pp. 250, 252, and 251
7. see also Pogge, "An Egalitarian Law of Peoples," Philosophy and Public Affairs, 23/3 (summer 1994): 195-224, at p. 212
8. Pogge, "Priorities of Global Justice," Metaphilosophy, 32/1-2 (January 2001): 6-24, at p. 16.
9. See for example, Pogge, "Rawls on International Justice," p. 251.
10. Pogge, "Priorities of Global Justice," pp. 16-17.
11. See TJ, sects. 13 and 42; Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001, sect. 41 (cited as JasF in the text).