John Rawls's Law of Peoples
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Zum 20jährigen Jubiläum von John Rawls drittem Hauptwerk ist dieser kooperativer Kommentar in der Reihe "Klassiker Auslegen" erschienen. Mein Betrag widmet sich der "Einleitung" von Law of People, in der bereits die grundlegenden... more
This is a 99% complete long book manuscript. It defends the thesis that democracy in a robust (deliberative democratic) sense is a basic human right. In the process, it defends a theory of human rights in general that seeks to bridge the... more
The aim of this paper is to explore the question of the foundations of human rights in the context of the contemporary debate between moral conceptions and political/practice-based theories. In particular, I develop a twofold critical... more
BROCK, G. “Recent Work on Rawls’s Law of Peoples: Critics versus Defenders” American Philosophical Quarterly 47, 1, 85-101, January 2010.
ISSN: 0003-0481 (Print), 2152-1123 (Online)
ISSN: 0003-0481 (Print), 2152-1123 (Online)
In this chapter I put forward a transnational critique of the global justice literature. I argue that the transnational character of injustice and the transnational coalitions among those marginalized within Western societies and those in... more
The basic claim is that the principles Rawls present in The Law of Peoples will make more wars legitimate and, therefore, will tend to lead to more wars. First, an analysis of Rawls’ discussion of just war as it is presented in A Theory... more
Resumo: Este artigo apresenta de forma sintética a obra O Direito dos Povos de John Rawls; destaca-se, especialmente, a sua resposta ao realismo político. Examina alguns elementos do realismo clássico e neoclássico e como a ideia de paz... more
I revisit the issue of "Kazanistan's" inclusion in a society of peoples governed by a law of peoples reasonable from the point of view of liberal democratic peoples. I conclude that I and others have thus far missed the main line of... more
Many theories have attempted, in recent years, to provide adequate grounds for a distinction between duties of justice owed to co-citizens, on the one hand, and to foreigners , on the other. Michael Blake's coercion theory has been one of... more
Review of Benhabib's 2004 book, the Rights of Others.
Published in Azure, Spring 2006.
Published in Azure, Spring 2006.
John Rawls' The Law of Peoples has been criticized for not being sufficiently realistic or for being too tolerant towards non-liberal ideas and thus insufficiently liberal. Genuine and valuable contributions to questions of international... more
Final version: Asger Sørensen: “The Law of Peoples in the Age of Empire: The Post-Modern Resurgence of the Ideology of Just War”, Journal of the Philosophy of International Law, vol. 6, iss. 1, 2015, p. 19-37. Accessible here at Academia.... more
A notable feature of Rawls’ theory of international justice, which he presented in The Laws of Peoples, is his insistence on the toleration of non-liberal states provided that they are decent. Many political philosophers have criticized... more
Schaub, Jörg. "11. John Rawls’ Projekt(e) der Versöhnung (§ 18)". John Rawls: Das Recht der Völker, edited by Henning Hahn and Reza Mosayebi, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019, pp. 177-196.
Rawls's discussion and treatment of the fictional "Kazanistan" in The Law of Peoples has not been well-understood. In this essay I situate Rawls's discussion of "Kazanistan" relative to two aspects of the larger architectonic of his... more
O artigo revisa as principais abordagens de comunitaristas e cosmopolitas acerca da justiça distributiva internacional no intuito de problematizá-las dentro das teorias contemporâneas de Relações Internacionais, notadamente do... more