World poverty and human rights : cosmopolitan responsibilities and reforms / Thomas W. Pogge.
2002
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Title
World poverty and human rights : cosmopolitan responsibilities and reforms / Thomas W. Pogge.
Published
Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
Call Number
JX4263.P3 P753 2002
ISBN
0745629946 (alk. paper)
0745629954 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0745629954 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
vii, 284 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)50851856
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [256]-266) and index.
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Table of Contents
General Introduction
1
1
Human Flourishing and Universal Justice
27
1.1Social justice
31
1.2Paternalism
34
1.3Justice in first approximation
37
1.4Essential refinements
39
1.5Human rights
44
1.6Specification of human rights and responsibilities for their realization
48
2
How Should Human Rights be Conceived?
52
2.1From natural law to rights
54
2.2From natural rights to human rights
56
2.3Official disrespect
59
2.4the libertarian critique of social and economic rights
64
2.5The critique of social and economic rights as "manifesto rights"
67
2.6Disputes about kinds of human rights
69
3
Loopholes in Moralities
71
3.1Types of incentives
73
3.2Loopholes
75
3.3Social arrangements
76
3.4Case 1: the converted apartment building
77
3.5Case 2: the homelands policy of white South Africa
80
3.6An objection
82
3.7Strengthening
83
3.8Fictional histories
85
3.9Puzzles of equivalence
87
4
Moral Universalism and Global Economic Justice
91
4.1Moral universalism
92
4.2Our moral assessments of national and global economic orders
94
4.3Some factual background about the global economic order
96
4.4Conceptions of national and global economic justice contrasted
100
4.5Moral universalism and David Miller's contextualism
102
4.6Contextualist moral universalism and John Rawls's moral conception
104
4.7Rationalizing divergent moral assessments through a double standard
108
4.8Rationalizing divergent moral assessments without a double standard
110
4.9The causal role of global institutions in the persistence of severe poverty
112
5
The Bounds of Nationalism
118
5.1Common nationalism: priority for the interests of compatriots
120
5.2Lofty nationalism: the justice-for-compatriots priority
129
5.3Explanatory nationalism: the deep significance of national borders
139
6
Achieving Democracy
146
6.1The structure of the problem faced by fledgling democracies
148
6.2Reducing the expected rewards of coups d'etat
152
6.3Undermining the borrowing privilege of authoritarian predators
153
6.4Undermining the resource privilege of authoritarian predators
162
7
Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty
168
7.1Institutional cosmopolitanism based on human rights
169
7.2The idea of state sovereignty
177
7.3Some main reasons for a vertical dispersal of sovereignty
181
7.4The shaping and reshaping of political units
190
8
Eradicating Systemic Poverty: Brief for a Global Resources Dividend
196
8.1Radical inequality and our responsibility
197
8.2Three grounds of injustice
199
8.3A moderate proposal
204
8.4The moral argument for the proposed reform
208
8.5Is the reform proposal realistic?
210
Notes
216
Bibliography
256
Index
267