| ID | 115197 |
| Title Proper | Global justice, historical justice |
| Other Title Information | looking at the two debates in Tandem |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Stark, Andrew |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The debates over global and historical justice much preoccupy contemporary political theory. Yet they have not been analyzed in tandem. And this, despite the fact that a number of theoretical frameworks, principal among them contractarianism and utilitarianism, configure arguments in both debates. In this essay, I show that such arguments, as advanced by either side in each of the two debates, all rest on a set of patterned assumptions about the nature of the self. Specifically, I argue, the debates over historical and global justice resemble each other as parallel contests over the physical, meta-social, metaphysical and social natures of the self. At their cores, the debates over historical and global justice thus display a common and symmetrical structure. I will also show that certain conceptions of the self underlying both the anti-historical justice and the anti-global justice positions are mutually inconsistent. Similar contradictions do not beset the pro-historical and pro-global justice positions. |
| `In' analytical Note | Political Theory Vol. 40, No.5; Oct 2012: p.543-572 |
| Journal Source | Political Theory Vol. 40, No.5; Oct 2012: p.543-572 |
| Key Words | Historical Justice ; Global Justice ; Contractarianism ; Utilitarianism ; Self |