Extra Rempublicam Nulla Justitia?
Extra Rempublicam Nulla Justitia?
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1088-4963.2006.00060.x
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发表时间:
2006-03-01
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Sabel, C
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作者:
Cohen, J;Sabel, C
In a world of rivalrous states whose peoples are connected ever more directly by globalization, Thomas Nagel has forcefully reasserted a clas-sical thesis of early modern political thought: outside the state, Nagel argues, there is no justice.'From this it follows, given the absence of a global state, that there can be no global justice. 2 Apart from this striking conclusion, however, little in Nagel's argu-ment echoes the Hobbesian variant of the early modern tradition to which he appeals. Even in our globally stateless condition, Nagel assumes, a humanitarian morality, including protections of basic, uni-versal human rights, imposes obligations across borders, although these obligations fall short of requirements of justice. He acknowledges, too, the growing importance to the lives of individuals the world over of global forms of cooperation organized by specialized institutions thatA reply to Thomas Nagel," The Problem of Global Justice," Philosophy & Public Affairs 33 (2005): 113-47. We have placed page references to Nagel's article in the text. The authors thank Josiah Ober and Denis Feeney for assistance with the title. We are grateful for com-ments on an earlier draft from Suzanne Berger, John Ferejohn, Barbara Fried, Robert Keohane, Gerald Neuman, Josiah Ober, Mathias Risse, Debra Satz, Joanne Scott, William Simon, Jonathan Zeitlin, and the Editors of Philosophy & Public Affairs. 1. Nagel notes the parallels between his conclusions and those in Michael Blake's important article," Distributive Justice, State Coercion and Autonomy," Philosophy & Public Affairs 30 (2001): 257-96. But there are also large philosophical differences. Although Blake, like Nagel, thinks that state boundaries make a large difference to moral requirements, in particular, that concerns about" relative deprivation" are confined to relations between co-citizens, Blake sees domestic and global political moralities as resulting from the application of liberal ideas of autonomy and" egalitarian justice" to different institutional settings. So Blake is not a skeptic about global justice, and appears to embrace a comprehensive moral liberalism rather than the kind of political conception that Nagel endorses.