John Rawls s The Law of Peoples adopts a people-centric approach to international ethics. Many liberal theorists find his account too oriented to the status quo; they prefer a more cosmopolitan, egalitarian approach to international ethics. In this book Hsuan-Hsiang Lin offers a theoretical defense for Rawls s approach via expounding the key ideas of Rawls s political constructivism, including reasonableness, justification, and public reason. On the other hand, Lin qualifies his defense by adding two minor revisions to Rawls s framework. Lin argues that Rawls s taxonomy of peoples runs...
John Rawls s The Law of Peoples adopts a people-centric approach to international ethics. Many liberal theorists find his account too oriented to the ...