Political Membership in the Contractarian Defense of Cosmopolitanism

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ID6403713
AutoresLea Ypi (0000-0002-2573-9704, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume70
Fascículo3
Páginas442-472
Data de publicação2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Review of Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0034670508000569
OpenAlexW1963696422
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas36

This article assesses the recent use of contractarian strategies for the justification of cosmopolitan distributive principles. It deals in particular with the cosmopolitan critique of political membership and tries to reject the claim that political communities are arbitrary for the scope of global justice. By focusing on the circumstances of justice, the nature of the parties, the veil of ignorance, and the sense of justice, the article tries to show that the cosmopolitan critique of political membership modifies the contractarian premises in a way that is both unwarranted and unnecessary. While failing to establish principles of global distributive justice, existing cosmopolitan adaptations of the social contract device simply weaken the method's justificatory potential

Cosmopolitanism · Distributive justice · Distributive property · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Global justice · Ignorance · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Scope (computer science · Social contract · Sociology · Veil of ignorance · Computer Science · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · War, Ethics, and Justification