Justice, Borders and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Reply to Two Critics

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Justice Beyond Borders: A Global Political Theory (2005) Oxford University Press, Oxford. References to this book are inserted into the text. 2. Caney (2001), ‘Cosmopolitan justice and equalizing opportunities’, Metaphilosophy, vol. 32, nos. 1/2, pp. 113–134. 3. Miller (2005), ‘Against global egalitarianism’, Journal of Ethics, vol. 9, nos. 1–2, pp. 55–79. 4. Brock ‘Caney's Global Political Theory’, this issue, Section I. 5. Brock ‘Caney's Global Political Theory’, p. 243. 6. See ‘Cosmopolitan Justice and Equalizing Opportunities’, p. 121. See also Nussbaum, M. (2000), Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and Sen, A. Development as Freedom Oxford University Press, Oxford. 7. See United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), (2006), Human Development Report 2006—Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis, Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 263ff. 8. This point is also made by D. Moellendorf in his defence of global equality of opportunity against Brock's (2006) objection in ‘Equality of Opportunity Globalized?’, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, vol. XIX, no. 2, pp. 309–310. See, more generally, his excellent discussion there (especially pp. 310–313). 9. Aristotle, (1986), Nicomachean Ethics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, translated with an introduction by W. D. Ross and revised by J. L. Ackrill and J. G. Urmson, Book I section 3, pp. 2–3. 10. ‘Justice within Different Borders’, p. 263. 11. ‘Justice within Different Borders’, pp. 263–264. 12. See also Caney, (1999), ‘Nationality, distributive justice and the use of force’, Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 123–138, especially pp. 132–133. 13. ‘Justice within Different Borders’, pp. 264–266. 14. Barry B., (1995), Justice as Impartiality: A Treatise on Social Justice, vol. II, Clarendon, Oxford. 15. ‘Caney's Global Political Theory’, pp. 244–246. 16. ‘Caney's Global Political Theory’, p. 245. 17. ‘Caney's Global Political Theory’, p. 246. 18. ‘Caney's Global Political Theory’, p. 246. 19. For a powerful statement of this argument see Hillel Steiner ‘Impartiality, freedom and natural rights’, Political Studies, vol. XLIV, no. 2 (1996), pp. 311–313. 20. ‘Justice within Different Borders’, pp. 257–258. 21. I have, however, addressed this is Caney (2007), ‘Global poverty and human rights: the case for positive duties’ in Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes What the Very Poor? ed. by T. Pogge, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 275–302. 22. ‘Justice within Different Borders’, pp. 260–262. 23. ‘Justice within Different Borders’, p. 258. 24. For these three arguments see ‘Justice within Different Borders’, pp. 258–259. 25. ‘Justice within Different Borders’, p. 259. 26. For more on this see Caney, (2006), ‘Cosmopolitanism, democracy and distributive justice’, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 31, pp. 29–63; and ‘Cosmopolitan justice and institutional design: an egalitarian liberal conception of global governance’, Social Theory and Practice, vol. 32, no 4, pp. 725–756. 27. ‘Justice within Different Borders’, pp. 256–257. 28. For a fuller development and defence of the cosmopolitan egalitarian ideal see Caney On Cosmopolitanism, Oxford University Press, Oxford (forthcoming).