Cosmopolitan Regard: Political Membership and Global Justice

ISBN-13: 9780521761871 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 232 str.

Richard Vernon

Opis

Political Membership and Global Justice. Cosmopolitan theory suggests that we should shift our moral attention from the local to the global. Richard Vernon argues, however, that if we adopt cosmopolitan beliefs about justice we must re-examine our beliefs about political obligation. Far from und.

Recenzje

'Richard Vernon's book makes an elegant contribution to debates in contemporary political philosophy about the moral basis of our political societies and its implications for the duties we have to those who fall outside of our associative universes of belonging.' Criminal Law and Philosophy

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Against associative obligations; 2. Particularizing obligation: the normative role of risk; 3. The social waiver; 4. Compatriot Preference and the Iteration Proviso; 5. Humanitarian intervention and the case for natural duty; 6. Associative risk and international crime; 7. A global harm principle?; Conclusion: citizens in the world.