Format:
1 online resource (232 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203335192
Series Statement:
Routledge Innovations in Political Theory Ser.
Content:
Could global government be the answer to global poverty and starvation? Cosmopolitan thinkers challenge the widely held belief that we owe more to our co-citizens than to those in other countries. This book offers a moral argument for world government, claiming that not only do we have strong obligations to people elsewhere, but that accountable integration among nation-states will help ensure that all persons can lead a decent life. Cabrera considers both the views of those political philosophers who say we have much stronger obligations to help our co-citizens than foreigners and those cosmopolitans who say our duties are equally strong to each but resist restructuring.
Content:
Cover -- Political Theory of Global Justice: A cosmopolitan case for the world state -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Jericho road -- 1 Priorities -- Introduction -- The constitutive approach -- The poor fit objection -- Undercutting -- The universal-particularism approach -- Impositions -- Side-effects -- The intimacy approach -- Distinguishing between obligations to intimates -- 2 Consequences -- Introduction -- Consequentialism and moral cosmopolitanism -- A utilitarian argument for cosmopolitan distributions -- The moral heroism objection -- Basic wants utilitarianism -- Moral heroism and distance -- The impermissible sacrifices objection -- Hybrid consequentialism -- Conclusion -- 3 Moral reciprocity and self-development rights -- Introduction -- Rawls's rejection of cosmopolitanism -- The Rawlsian interdependence approach -- Interdependence and isolated states -- Domestic interaction and immigration -- The moral reciprocity approach and self-development -- Global equal opportunity and self-development rights -- The case for free movement -- Culture and universality in self-development rights -- Conclusion -- 4 The cosmopolitan imperative -- Introduction -- The Westphalian system -- Sovereignty and universal rights -- An ideal sovereign states system -- Westphalian biases against cosmopolitan distributions -- An integrated alternative -- An obligation to create just institutions -- Conclusion -- 5 Democratic distance -- Introduction -- The world state ideal -- The democratic distance objection -- The integrated alternative elaborated -- Citizen efficacy and substate groups -- Majority tyranny and trans-state factions -- Tyranny of the impoverished global majority -- Conclusion -- 6 Citizenship, armed tyranny and the democratic peace -- Introduction -- The citizenship objection -- Civic nations.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415700221
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415700221
Additional Edition:
Print version Political Theory of Global Justice : A Cosmopolitan Case for the World State
Language:
English
URL:
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