Charles R Beitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 323200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles R Beitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles R |
| FAMILY NAME | Beitz |
| SIGNATURE | BEITZ C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swarthmore College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 303 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Punishment
International Ethics
Political Equality
The practice and its authority
A ‘practical’ theory of human rights should make sense of two claims: a ‘practice claim’ – that international human rights can fruitfully be regarded as an existing social practice – and an ‘authority claim’ – that participants in the practice have reasons to adhere to its norms. I elaborate both of these claims in this paper, taking into account important developments in the empirical study of international human rights in the last decade
How Is Partisan Gerrymandering Unfair
Property and Time
Human Dignity in the Theory of Human Rights
From Practice to Theory
Global Basic Rights
Politically, as well as philosophically, concerns with human rights have permeated many of the most important debates on social justice worldwide for fully a half-century. Henry Shue’s 1980 book on Basic Rights proved to be a pioneering contribution to those debates, and one that continues to elicit both critical and constructive comment. This book brings together many of the most influential contemporary writers in political philosophy and inter…
The Idea of Human Rights
Human rights have become one of the most important moral concepts in global political life over the last 60 years. Charles Beitz, one of the world's leading philosophers, offers a compelling new examination of the idea of a human right.--. - Source other than Library of Congress.
The Moral Standing of States Revisited
“The Moral Standing of States” is the title of an essay Michael Walzer wrote in response to four critics of the theory of nonintervention defended in Just and Unjust Wars . It states a theme to which he has returned in subsequent work. I offer four sets of comments. First, by way of introduction, I describe the controversy between Walzer and his critics and try to identify the central point of contention. Second, I make some observations about th…
The idea of human rights
Human rights have become one of the most important moral concepts in global political life over the last 60 years. Charles Beitz, one of the world's leading philosophers, offers a compelling new examination of the idea of a human right
Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice
Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice
The Moral Rights of Creators of Artistic and Literary Works
Reflections
I am grateful to all five contributors to this Forum for the generosity of their comments about Political Theory and International Relations and their critical interest in the issues taken up in the book. It is a good thing that these issues have attracted the attention of so many talented scholars. This would certainly have occurred even if PTIR had never been written, but I am delighted that the book seems to have been a constructive provocatio…
Human rights and the law of peoples
One of the many contributions to international thought of The Law of Peoples is a distinctive and unorthodox view about human rights. In this essay, I would like to explore the prospects for a political theory of human rights suggested by certain features of this view. I do not pretend to offer an interpretation, or even a variant, of Rawls' view, since in some respects I differ from it. But I believe the conception of human rights in The Law of …
Does Global Inequality Matter?
Global economic and political inequalities are in most respects greater today than they have been for decades. From one point of view inequality is a bad thing simply because it involves a deviation from equality, which is thought to have value for its own sake. But it is controversial whether this position can be defended, and if it can, whether the egalitarian ideal on which the defense may depend applies at the global level as in individual so…
Human Rights as a Common Concern
The doctrine of human rights has come to play a distinctive role in international life. This is primarily the role of a moral touchstone-a standard of assessment and criticism for domestic institutions, a standard of aspiration for their reform, and increasingly a standard of evaluation for the policies and practices of international economic and political institutions. International practice has followed the controlling documents of internationa…
Rawls's Law of Peoples
Political Theory and International Relations
Political Theory and International Relations
Political theory and international relations
In this revised edition of his 1979 classic Political Theory and International Relations, Charles Beitz rejects two highly influential conceptions of international theory as empirically inaccurate and theoretically misleading. In one, international relations is a Hobbesian state of nature in which moral judgments are entirely inappropriate, and in the other, states are analogous to persons in domestic society in having rights of autonomy that ins…
International Liberalism and Distributive Justice
In recent years there has been a renewal of interest in the liberal tradition in international thought, with particular attention being paid to liberal conceptions of international distributive justice. This article describes and criticizes three different approaches to international distributive justice represented in the recent literature: (1) social liberalism, which takes the nation-state as basic and argues for international transfers to the…
Social and Cosmopolitan Liberalism
A central divide in philosophical thought about international distributive justice separates ‘social’ from ‘cosmopolitan’ liberalism. These views differ about the nature of the problem of international justice: social liberals are primarily concerned about fairness to states or societies, whereas cosmopolitan liberals are concerned about fairness to individuals. This article explores three reasons why philosophers interested in international dist…
Political theory and international relations
In this revised edition of his 1979 classic Political Theory and International Relations, Charles Beitz rejects two highly influential conceptions of international theory as empirically inaccurate and theoretically misleading. In one, international relations is a Hobbesian state of nature in which moral judgments are entirely inappropriate, and in the other, states are analogous to persons in domestic society in having rights of autonomy that ins…
Human Rights as a Common Concern
The doctrine of human rights has come to play a distinctive role in international life. This is primarily the role of a moral touchstone-a standard of assessment and criticism for domestic institutions, a standard of aspiration for their reform, and increasingly a standard of evaluation for the policies and practices of international economic and political institutions. International practice has followed the controlling documents of internationa…
International Liberalism and Distributive Justice
In recent years there has been a renewal of interest in the liberal tradition in international thought, with particular attention being paid to liberal conceptions of international distributive justice. This article describes and criticizes three different approaches to international distributive justice represented in the recent literature: (1) social liberalism, which takes the nation-state as basic and argues for international transfers to the…
Human Dignity in the Theory of Human Rights
Bounded morality
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Social and Cosmopolitan Liberalism
A central divide in philosophical thought about international distributive justice separates ‘social’ from ‘cosmopolitan’ liberalism. These views differ about the nature of the problem of international justice: social liberals are primarily concerned about fairness to states or societies, whereas cosmopolitan liberals are concerned about fairness to individuals. This article explores three reasons why philosophers interested in international dist…
The Moral Standing of States Revisited
“The Moral Standing of States” is the title of an essay Michael Walzer wrote in response to four critics of the theory of nonintervention defended in Just and Unjust Wars . It states a theme to which he has returned in subsequent work. I offer four sets of comments. First, by way of introduction, I describe the controversy between Walzer and his critics and try to identify the central point of contention. Second, I make some observations about th…
Recent International Thought
A decade ago it was possible to observe that international political theory was undergoing a rebirth. After being neglected for most of this century, a variety of normative problems in international affairs were receiving renewed attention. These problems included questions about ethics in war, the moral character of the state, and the proper role of moral considerations in foreign policy. Some more distinctively modern problems were emerging as …
How Is Partisan Gerrymandering Unfair
Economic Rights and Distributive Justice in Developing Societies
This essay seeks to answer an important question of normative political theory concerning the developing countries: What claims to economic benefits are people justified in pressing against governments that are preoccupied with the development of their economies? Two alternative principles of distributive justice—the principle of maximizing growth and the principle of minimizing poverty—are examined with special reference to the circumstances of …
Tacit Consent and Property Rights
Liberalismo internacional e justiça distributiva
Três enfoques de justiça distributiva internacional (que exprimem diferentes pressupostos da tradição liberal) representadas na literatura recente são descritos. Examina-se o tema com relação à questão dos direitos humanos
Covert Intervention as a Moral Problem
Today's international community may well view covert action and democracy as mutually exclusive policies. This article examines the practice of covert action in American foreign policy in light of events of the mid-1970s and 1980s, focusing on the scandalous misuse of executive authority and lack of accountability associated with covert means. Often manipulative and sometimes anonymous, covert operations raise critical morality concerns in a demo…
Property and Time
From Practice to Theory
The Moral Rights of Creators of Artistic and Literary Works
Reflections
I am grateful to all five contributors to this Forum for the generosity of their comments about Political Theory and International Relations and their critical interest in the issues taken up in the book. It is a good thing that these issues have attracted the attention of so many talented scholars. This would certainly have occurred even if PTIR had never been written, but I am delighted that the book seems to have been a constructive provocatio…
Equality, Liberty, and Perfectionism
The Liberal Heresy
Bounded morality
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Political Theory and International Relations
Preface vii Introduction 3 Part One. International Relations as a State of Nature 11 1. The Skepticism of the Realists 15 2. The Hobbesian Situation 27 3. International Relations as a State of Nature 35 4. The Basis of International Morality 50 5. From International Skepticism to the Morality of States 63 Part Two. The Autonomy of States 67 1 . State Autonomy and Individual Liberty 71 2. Nonintervention, Paternalism, and Neutrality 83 3. Self-det…
Political Theory and International Relations
Tacit Consent and Property Rights
Economic Rights and Distributive Justice in Developing Societies
This essay seeks to answer an important question of normative political theory concerning the developing countries: What claims to economic benefits are people justified in pressing against governments that are preoccupied with the development of their economies? Two alternative principles of distributive justice—the principle of maximizing growth and the principle of minimizing poverty—are examined with special reference to the circumstances of …
Equality, Liberty, and Perfectionism
Cosmopolitan Ideals and National Sentiment
Books in Review
International Ethics
This book is comprised of essays previously published in Philosophy & Public Affairs and also an extended excerpt from Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars
Recent International Thought
A decade ago it was possible to observe that international political theory was undergoing a rebirth. After being neglected for most of this century, a variety of normative problems in international affairs were receiving renewed attention. These problems included questions about ethics in war, the moral character of the state, and the proper role of moral considerations in foreign policy. Some more distinctively modern problems were emerging as …
Covert Intervention as a Moral Problem
Today's international community may well view covert action and democracy as mutually exclusive policies. This article examines the practice of covert action in American foreign policy in light of events of the mid-1970s and 1980s, focusing on the scandalous misuse of executive authority and lack of accountability associated with covert means. Often manipulative and sometimes anonymous, covert operations raise critical morality concerns in a demo…
Political equality
Political Equality
Books in Review
Political Equality
Secession
Punishment
The problem of justifying legal punishment has been at the heart of legal and social philosophy from the very earliest recorded philosophical texts. However, despite several hundred years of debate, philosophers have not reached agreement about how legal punishment can be morally justified. That is the central issue addressed by the contributors to this volume. All of the essays collected here have been published in the highly respected journal P…
Political Theory and International Relations
Political Theory and International Relations
Political theory and international relations
In this revised edition of his 1979 classic Political Theory and International Relations, Charles Beitz rejects two highly influential conceptions of international theory as empirically inaccurate and theoretically misleading. In one, international relations is a Hobbesian state of nature in which moral judgments are entirely inappropriate, and in the other, states are analogous to persons in domestic society in having rights of autonomy that ins…
International Liberalism and Distributive Justice
In recent years there has been a renewal of interest in the liberal tradition in international thought, with particular attention being paid to liberal conceptions of international distributive justice. This article describes and criticizes three different approaches to international distributive justice represented in the recent literature: (1) social liberalism, which takes the nation-state as basic and argues for international transfers to the…
Social and Cosmopolitan Liberalism
A central divide in philosophical thought about international distributive justice separates ‘social’ from ‘cosmopolitan’ liberalism. These views differ about the nature of the problem of international justice: social liberals are primarily concerned about fairness to states or societies, whereas cosmopolitan liberals are concerned about fairness to individuals. This article explores three reasons why philosophers interested in international dist…
Liberalismo internacional e justiça distributiva
Três enfoques de justiça distributiva internacional (que exprimem diferentes pressupostos da tradição liberal) representadas na literatura recente são descritos. Examina-se o tema com relação à questão dos direitos humanos
Rawls's Law of Peoples
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