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- Title: Defending the Duty of Assistance?(Critical Essay)
- Author : Social Theory and Practice
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
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1. Introduction Ideas, like any other kind of intervention, can be timely or untimely. Whereas John Rawls's theory of domestic justice appeared at a time of post-war consensus, welfare-state building and egalitarian ambition--albeit short-lived--that seemed to resonate powerfully with his central ideas, his final book, The Law of Peoples, (1) appeared to many to be distinctly untimely. Characterized as it was by a commitment to the world of autonomous nation-states, or Peoples--indeed affirming the possibility of their autarky--whilst refusing the claims of global distributive justice, it was criticized by many for harking back to a time that had long since passed. It provided, in the words of one trenchant critic, "rules for a vanished Westphalian world," (2) and precious little guidance for our world of ever-accelerating integration and interdependence. It was also taken as a definitive betrayal of those "more royalist than the king" who had steadily been outlining--despite the absence of encouragement from Rawls himself--what they took to be the implications of his domestic account for achieving a more just global order. (3) Whereas the drive to elaborate principles and practices of global distributive justice is continuing apace in the academy, Rawls rejected the very idea of global distributive justice, and recommended instead a "duty of assistance" towards societies burdened by unfavorable conditions--a concession that was described by many critics as wholly inadequate to the task of addressing global economic injustice. (4)
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