PHI 4311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Global Politics, World Trade Organization, Monism
11 Nov 2014
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Joshua cohen and charles sabel - extra rempublicam nulla justitia? . Deals with nagel"s claims of global justice main focus that nagel says that without a global state you cannot have global justice (rejection of statism) Weak the state perpetuates notion of justice where individuals are given equal consideration when of a common state. S & c - the powerful should then be given free hand to shape social arrangements and people should impose claims of justice on transnational institutions. Nagel but international standards would obstruct institutions such as the wto (morally counterproductive). Strong statism the existence of the state is necessary to trigger any norms beyond the minimum. Nagel global justice: a moral minimum does not depend on any connection between institutions and other persons. It might be impossible to fulfill our moral duty to others without institutions. If a global state did not exist, we could not formulate an idea of global justice.
