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Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality

Norman Daniels, Michael Walzer
01 Jan 1985-The Philosophical Review (Basil Blackwell)-Vol. 83, Iss: 1, pp 142
TL;DR: Lawler as mentioned in this paper argued that being for the freeze means that one is not for disarmament, which is hardly a rational position in the sense that it is suspect if not immoral, in the eyes of some.
Abstract: that a plurality of the American Catholic bishops endorse a nuclear freeze (p. 4), saying that they are thus "taking their stance with Moscow,55 which is for a freeze, and not with the Vatican, which "is still in favor of disarmament?not a freeze.55 To make any sense at all, Mr. Lawler must mean that being for the freeze means that one is not for disarmament? hardly a rational position. One recalls here the arguments, during the 19305s and 19405s, that being for racial justice in the United States was suspect if not immoral, in the eyes of some, because the communists also favored it.
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Externalized Migration Governance and the Limits of Sovereignty: The Case of Partnership Agreements between EU and Libya

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Elin Palm1•
Linköping University1
01 Feb 2020-Theoria
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that state sovereignty justifies privileged receiving countries exercising authority over non-members in a third country to safeguard their own interests under the current migration governance of the...
Abstract: Can state sovereignty justify privileged receiving countries exercising authority over non-members in a third country to safeguard their own interests? Under the current migration governance of the ...

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Cites background from "Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pl..."

  • ...Political philosophers like Walzer (1983), Miller (2007) and Altman and Wellman (2011) draw on state sovereignty when explaining why legitimate states are within their rights to control immigration....

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  • ...On the basis of a Neo-republican account of sovereignty, it will be disputed that a right to sovereign rule must imply that states are at liberty to control admission as they see fit, as held by, for instance, Walzer (1983), Wellman and Cole (2011) and Miller (2007)....

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  • ...According to these scholars, legitimate nation states are within their rights to decide whether or not to exclude or admit prospective immigrants (Walzer, 1983; Altman and Wellman, 2011)....

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Guest Worker Programs and Reasonable, Feasible Cosmopolitanism

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Richard J. Arneson
03 Aug 2018-The Journal of Legal Studies
TL;DR: The presence of guest workers in affluent countries poses difficulties for social justice theories as discussed by the authors, allowing badly off foreigners to enter and take temporary employment, even on harsh terms, even in harsh terms.
Abstract: The presence of guest workers in affluent countries poses difficulties for social justice theories. Allowing badly off foreigners to enter and take temporary employment, even on harsh terms...

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On Justice in Pedagogical Contexts

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Dietrich Benner1•
Humboldt University of Berlin1
13 Aug 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, the question of what is meant by justice in pedagogical contexts and whether there is a proven concept of justice at all, from which the public and scienti...
Abstract: Purpose:This article explores the question of what is meant by justice in pedagogical contexts and whether there is a proven pedagogical concept of justice at all, from which the public and scienti...

6 citations

Cites background from "Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pl..."

  • ...…a narrow focus on the legal system and advocated a distributive justice that provides comprehensive fairness to the socially unprivileged; – and most recently by Walzer (1983, 2006), who, like Herbart, distinguished between different spheres of justice and placed them in differentiated private…...

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Reframing public goods: human rights, community and governance in the third world

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Oche Onazi
26 Nov 2010
TL;DR: Acknowledgements and Declaration of the Community in Human Rights Discourse (CIRD) are given in this paper, with a focus on human rights defense and equality.
Abstract: .................................................................................................................................5 Acknowledgements.................................................................................................................6 Declaration..............................................................................................................................7 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION: COMMUNITY IN HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE............................9

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Multidimensional Horizontal and Global Inequality

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Scott Wisor1•
University of Birmingham1
30 Aug 2016-Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
TL;DR: Atkinson's Inequality: What Can Be Done? as discussed by the authors is the best available book on intra-national economic inequality, and should be required reading for all citizens who are concerned about the yawning gap between rich and poor.
Abstract: Tony Atkinson’s Inequality: What Can Be Done? is the best available book on intra-national economic inequality, and should be required reading for all citizens who are concerned about the yawning g...

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