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Rawls and Cosmopolitanism: Peoples, Persons, and Human Rights

[journal article]

Hakos, Greg

Abstract

In 'The Law of Peoples' Rawls extends his social contract theory to the international realm, and with that tries to provide his recipe for a "realistic utopia" - a perpetual peace. In fact, he follows Kant's "Perpetual Peace" in advocating not one centralized, "world-state," but rather an alliance o... view more

In 'The Law of Peoples' Rawls extends his social contract theory to the international realm, and with that tries to provide his recipe for a "realistic utopia" - a perpetual peace. In fact, he follows Kant's "Perpetual Peace" in advocating not one centralized, "world-state," but rather an alliance of many independent, well-ordered member nations (Peoples). Rawls calls such an alliance a "Society of Peoples" and suggests that it, "is reasonably just in that its members follow the reasonably just Law of Peoples in their mutual relations." This strategy also has unique implications for Rawls's conception of human rights. But, his conception has recently come under fire for its emphasis on Peoples over persons. In this paper I will try to demonstrate that one such attack misses its mark, and that Rawls in fact provides what I argue to be an extremely plausible view of human rights, at least from a social contract perspective. (author's abstract)... view less

Keywords
Rawls, J.; image of society; social structure; justice; constitutional state; nation state; international system; political philosophy; history of ideas; value; value-orientation; human rights; civil rights; cosmopolitanism

Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion

Document language
English

Publication Year
2006

Page/Pages
p. 1-28

Journal
Federal Governance, 3 (2006) 1

ISSN
1923-6158

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Basic Digital Peer Publishing Licence


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