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12 - Pluralist Internationalism

from Part II - Distributive Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

Mathias Risse
Mathias Risse
Affiliation:
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
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My proposal for an account of global justice that meets the conditions of Globality, Complexity, Stringency, and Reasonableness is pluralist internationalism. There are several grounds of justice: some are global and some not, some are relational and some not, and one is shared membership in a state; and these grounds are associated with different principles of distributive justice. The grounds discussed are shared membership in a state, common humanity, shared membership in the world society, shared involvement with the global trading system, and collective ownership of the earth. I recognize individuals as human beings, members of states, co-owners of the earth, members of the world society, and subject to a global trading system. An overall theory of global justice arises from exploring these grounds and assessing how they apply to the various agents with responsibility for global justice. This theory spells out a contemporary, global understanding of suum cuique.

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grounds of justicecommon humanitystatescollective ownership of the earth
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On Justice
Philosophy, History, Foundations
 , pp. 246 - 266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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