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Cosmopolitan Justice and Equalizing Opportunities
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This article argued that global equality of opportunity is an inappropriate ideal given the great cultural diversity that exists in the world and argued that it applies only to people who are interconnected in some way and infers from this that it should not be implemented at the global level.Abstract:
This paper defends a global principle of equality of opportunity, which states that it is unfair if some have worse opportunities because of their national or civic identity. It begins by outlining the reasoning underpinning this principle. It then considers three objections to global equality of opportunity. The first argues that global equality of opportunity is an inappropriate ideal given the great cultural diversity that exists in the world. The second maintains that equality of opportunity applies only to people who are interconnected in some way and infers from this that it should not be implemented at the global level. The third, inspired by Rawls's The Law of Peoples, maintains that it is inappropriate to thrust liberal ideals (like global equality of opportunity) on nonliberal peoples. Each of these challenges, I argue, is unpersuasive.read more
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Gender equality in science, medicine, and global health: where are we at and why does it matter?
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International Distributive Justice
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Justice without Borders: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Patriotism
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Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition
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Famine, Affluence, and Morality
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The Standard of Living
TL;DR: Amartya Sen reconsiders the idea of "the standard of living" and suggests an interpretation in terms of the "capabilities and freedoms" that states of affairs do or do not allow as mentioned in this paper.
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"The Law of Peoples: With" The Idea of Public Reason Revisited,"
TL;DR: The idea of public reason has been revisited by John Rawls in the Law of Peoples as mentioned in this paper, which is based on the idea of social contract, a social contract that can and should be accepted by both liberal and non-liberal societies as the standard for regulating their behaviour toward one another.
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Practical Reason and Norms
TL;DR: In this article, practical reason and norm is defined as a structure of reasons to perform the required act and an exclusionary reason not to follow some competing reasons, and games are used to exemplify normative systems.