Global justice, reciprocity, and the state
Global justice, reciprocity, and the state
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1088-4963.2007.00097.x
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发表时间:
2007-12-01
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Sangiovanni, Andrea
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作者:
Sangiovanni, Andrea
All cosmopolitans hold at least this set of beliefs:(i) Human beings are ultimate units of moral concern. Families, tribes, nations, cultures, and so on can become units of concern only indirectly.(2) The status as an ultimate unit of moral concern extends to all human beings equally.(3) Human beings should be treated as ultimate units of concern by everyone. 1Accepting these cosmopolitan premises, as I do, poses a challenge for anyone who believes that fundamentally different principles of distributive justice apply to the global order, on one hand, and to the main social and political institutions of the modern state, on the other." This discrepancy in moral assessment," Pogge avers," looks arbitrary. Why should our moral duties, constraining what economic order we may impose upon one another, be so different in the two cases?" 2 The aim of this article is to demonstrate that this discrepancy is not in fact arbitrary, and to do so without violating any of the cosmopolitan premises with which we began. More specifically, I will defend the idea that equality is a demand of justice only among citizens (and, indeed,