Justice at a distance : extending freedom globally / Loren E. Lomasky, Fernando R. Tesón.
2015
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Title
Justice at a distance : extending freedom globally / Loren E. Lomasky, Fernando R. Tesón.
Published
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Call Number
HN980 .L64 2015
ISBN
9781107115866 (hardback : alk. paper)
1107115868 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781107536029 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1107536022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1107115868 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781107536029 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1107536022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
x, 285 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)914326090
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
1.
The State of the World
1
The justice Question
1
The Relevant Facts: Freedom and Wealth
6
Oppression
8
Poverty
12
Conflict
24
The Democratic Peace
25
Conclusion
30
2.
What Do We Owe Distant Others?
31
Personal and Impersonal Value
34
Value and Rights
41
Justice and Other Virtues
47
Rights, Wrongs, and Wrongings
49
Rational Bases for Charity to Distant Others
53
Justice and Distance
55
Rights and Wrongs
58
3.
Choosing Wealth, Choosing Poverty
59
The Great Transformation
63
How to Remain Poor
73
Effective Therapy Requires Accurate Diagnosis
79
Moral Responsibility Revisited
83
4.
Immigration
90
Beyond Rawlsian Global Justice
90
Freedom of Association
92
Liberal Democracy and Its Illiberal Opponents
100
Objections
105
1.
The Priority of the Domestic Poor
105
2.
The Self-Determination Objection
108
The Benefits of Immigration
118
Conclusion
120
5.
Emigration and the Brain-Drain Objection
121
The Facts
122
Proposals to Stem the Brain Drain
127
The State and the Emigrant
127
The Moral Arbitrariness of Talents
130
Personal Morality
136
The Question of Harm
138
Reciprocity
140
Nationalist or Cosmopolitan Duties?
145
The Host State
146
Evaluation of Proposals
147
6.
Trade
149
The Economics of International Trade
150
1.
Comparative Advantage
151
2.
Endogenous Comparative Advantage
152
Rejecting Mercantilism
155
The Effects of Free Trade on the Poor
157
Trade Protection by Rich Countries
159
Trade Protection by Developing Countries
164
Trade and Coercion: The Problem of Stolen Goods
166
The Pauper Labor Argument
168
A Note on the World Trade Organization
170
7.
States
172
States Defined
174
The Concept of Legitimacy
174
De Facto and De Jure Legitimacy
177
Governmental Illegitimacy and National Self-Determination
180
The Moral Standing of States
181
1.
The Westphalian View
181
2.
The Rawlsian View
190
3.
The Kantian View
199
4.
The Lockean View
203
A Note on Territory
205
Diplomacy
206
Noninterference with Persons and Noninterference with States
211
Nation-States, Spontaneous Order, or World Government?
213
The Universal Peaceful Order
214
Voluntary Communities
214
8.
War
216
The Anarchical Society
216
Just Cause for War: The Defense of Persons
218
Self-Defense
221
1.
National Self-Defense by a Good State
223
2.
National Self-Defense by a Bad State
225
Humanitarian Intervention
226
Intervention and State Legitimacy
228
The Target of Intervention: The Moral Value of Sovereignty
231
The Libertarian Objection
233
The Intervener
236
The Permissibility of Killing in War
241
Collateral Harm: The Doctrine of Double Effect
244
The Distinction between Intention and Foresight
246
The Role of the Just Cause in the Doctrine of Double Effect
248
Political Assassination and Targeted Killings
254
A Note on Jus Post Bellum
258
International Law and the Morality of War
259
9.
Beyond Justice at a Distance
261
Varieties of Aid
262
Privatizing Aid
267
What, Then, Is Left for Governments to Do?
271
Is Private Philanthropy Enough?
273
Conclusion
274
Index
279