Sovereign justice : global justice in a world of nations / edited by Diogo P. Aurâelio, Gabriele De Angelis, and Regina Queiroz.

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Nationalism and Global Justice: A Survey of Some Challenges -- Cosmopolitanism: Cultural, Moral, and Political -- Arguing for Justice. Global Justice and Philosophical Argumentation -- Global and Statist Egalitarianism and Their Woes -- What is so Special about the State? -- On the Applicability of the Ideal of Equality of Opportunity at the Global Level -- Against Relational Views of Justice and Parental Duties -- Cosmopolitanism, Sovereignty and Global Justice -- On Kant's Aesthetics and his Progressing Treatment of Peace. -- Rawls' via media: Between Realism and UtopianismRawls's The Law of Peoples as a Guideline for the World as We Know It -- Towards Fair Terms of Economic Cooperation -- Whip Cosmopolitanism into Shape: Assessing Thomas Pogge's Global Resources Dividend as an Instrument of Global Justice -- Backmatter.

Summary: Over the past years global justice has established itself as one of the new and most promising frontiers of political theory. Sovereign Justice collects valuable contributions from scholars of both continental and analytic tradition, and aims to investigate into the relationship between global justice and the nation state. It deals with the moral relevance of national boundaries and cosmopolitanism, and takes into account the most influential traditions that shape current approaches to the subject, especially those descending from Rawls and Kant.

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Proceedings of a conference held in Nov. 2008 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Over the past years global justice has established itself as one of the new and most promising frontiers of political theory. Sovereign Justice collects valuable contributions from scholars of both continental and analytic tradition, and aims to investigate into the relationship between global justice and the nation state. It deals with the moral relevance of national boundaries and cosmopolitanism, and takes into account the most influential traditions that shape current approaches to the subject, especially those descending from Rawls and Kant.