Justice in a Changing World / Edition 1

Acknowledgements     viii
Setting the Stage     1
Introduction     1
Egalitarian liberalism     3
Rawls's theory of justice     3
Egalitarian liberalism after Rawls, I: luck egalitarianism     6
Egalitarian liberalism after Rawls, II: sufficientism     12
The communitarian critique of Rawls: individuals and communities     15
Thinking about justice     15
Individuals and communities     17
Justice and rights     18
Rawls's response: political liberalism     19
The libertarian critique of Rawls: justice as entitlements     21
Themes and issues     26
Justice towards Future Generations     28
Introduction     28
Egalitarian liberalism and future generations     31
Rawls's just savings principle     31
Luck egalitarianism     35
Sufficiency     36
The transgenerational community: a source of obligations to our successors     39
Libertarianism and future generations     41
Future generations and the non-identity objection     45
Conclusion     50
Multiculturalism     51
Introduction     51
An egalitarian liberal position: Kymlicka's defence of minority rights     52
Communitarianism and minorities     62
A libertarian position: Kukathas's liberal archipelago     65
Conclusion     72
National Self-Determination     74
Introduction     74
Liberal nationalism     77
Self-determination claims     77
Territorial claims     82
Communitarianism and national self-determination     84
Self-determination claims     84
Territorial claims     87
Libertarianism and national self-determination     88
Self-determination claims     88
Territorial claims     90
Conclusion     94
Global Distributive Justice     95
Introduction     95
Egalitarian liberalism and global distributive justice     97
Luck egalitarianism, sufficientism, and the irrelevance of borders     97
Egalitarian liberalism and the moral relevance of borders, I: Rawls's Law of Peoples     103
Egalitarian liberalism and the moral relevance of borders, II: Nagel's political conception of justice     105
Communitarianism and global distributive justice     106
A libertarian position: Hillel Steiner on global distributive justice     110
Conclusion     112
Immigration     113
Introduction     113
An egalitarian liberal case for relatively open borders     116
A Rawlsian view on immigration     116
Egalitarian liberal arguments for open borders     119
Open borders and distributive justice: sufficiency and immigration     121
A communitarian position: Walzer on immigration     124
A libertarian position: Hillel Steiner on immigration     127
Who should take in immigrants?     130
Conclusion     132
Reparative Justice     133
Introduction     133
Egalitarian liberalism and reparative justice     137
Luck egalitarianism, sufficientism, and reparations     137
Refining the position     140
Communitarianism and reparative justice: a mixed view     150
The communitarian transgenerational community: in defence of reparations     150
Judging the past: a very limited defence of reparations     152
Libertarianism and reparative justice     155
Conclusion     161
Conclusion     162
References     164
Index      171