Week 5: Global justice
Essay question
Essay question
- Do I owe my fellow countrymen more than I owe to other human beings?
Key readings
Key readings
- Brock, Gillian, Global Justice, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring, 2015)
- Pogge, Thomas, "Assisting" the Global Poor, in Deen Chatterjee (ed.), The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, ch. 13
- Nagel, Thomas, The Problem of Global Justice, Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 33, no. 2 (March, 2005), pp. 113-147
- Miller, David, National Responsibility and Global Justice, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, vol. 11, no. 4 (December, 2008), pp. 383–399
Further reading
Further reading
- Beitz, Charles, Political Theory and International Relations, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1979, part III
- Blake, Michael, Distributive Justice, State Coercion, and Autonomy, Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 30, no. 3 (July, 2001), pp. 257–296.
- Brock, Gillian, Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Caney, Simon, Justice Beyond Borders: A Global Political Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, ch. 4.
- Caney, Simon, Humanity, Associations, and Global Justice: In Defence of Humanity- Centred Cosmopolitan Egalitarianism, The Monist, vol. 94, no. 4 (October, 2011), pp. 506- 534.
- Nagel, Thomas, The Problem of Global Justice, Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 33, no.2 (March, 2005), pp.113-147.
- Pogge, Thomas, World Poverty and Human Rights, Oxford: Polity, 2002.
- Rawls, John, The Law of Peoples: With, the Idea of Public Reason Revisited, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999.
- Sangiovanni, Andrea, Global Justice, Reciprocity, and the State, Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 35, no.1 (Winter, 2007), pp. 3-39.
- Valentini, Laura, Justice in a Globalized World: A Normative Framework, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Ypi, Lea, Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Exam questions
Exam questions
- 'The principles of justice that apply within nation-states are different from those that apply between them.'
- Does justice recognize borders?
- To what extent does the value of national self-determination limit what people in poor countries can justly demand of those in rich countries?
- Do citizens of different nations owe anything to one another?