Justice across Boundaries
Whose Obligations?

This book offers an answer to the question: who ought to do what, and for whom, if global justice is to progress?

Onora O'Neill (Author)

9781107538177, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 February 2016

249 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.36 kg

'Onora O'Neill combines the most rigorous philosophical thinking with a rare capacity for judgement in order to address some of the deepest challenges of our age. Her essays are essential reading, not only for philosophers and political theorists but for all those concerned about the prospects of justice on our planet.' John Tasioulas, King's College London

Who ought to do what, and for whom, if global justice is to progress? In this collection of essays on justice beyond borders, Onora O'Neill criticises theoretical approaches that concentrate on rights, yet ignore both the obligations that must be met to realise those rights, and the capacities needed by those who shoulder these obligations. She notes that states are profoundly anti-cosmopolitan institutions, and that even those committed to justice and universal rights often lack the competence and the will to secure them, let alone to secure them beyond their borders. She argues for a wider conception of global justice, in which obligations may be held either by states or by competent non-state actors, and in which borders themselves must meet standards of justice. This rich and wide-ranging collection will appeal to a broad array of academic researchers and advanced students of political philosophy, political theory, international relations and philosophy of law.

Introduction
Part I. Hunger across Boundaries: 1. Lifeboat Earth
2. Rights, obligations and world hunger
3. Rights to compensation
Part II. Justifications across Boundaries: 4. Justice and boundaries
5. Ethical reasoning and ideological pluralism
6. Bounded and cosmopolitan justice
7. Pluralism, positivism and the justification of human rights
Part III. Action across Boundaries: 8. From Edmund Burke to twenty-first-century human rights: abstraction, circumstances and globalisation
9. From statist to global conceptions of justice
10. Global justice: whose obligations?
11. Agents of justice
12. The dark side of human rights
Part IV. Health across Boundaries: 13. Public health or clinical ethics: thinking beyond borders
14. Broadening bioethics: clinical ethics, public health and global health
Index.

Subject Areas: Political science & theory [JPA], Social & political philosophy [HPS]