Global Justice: Two approaches

Authors

  • Thomas Pogge Yale University
  • David Álvarez Universidade de Vigo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2010.i43.708

Keywords:

Sen, transcendental theory of justice, comparative approach, minimal global justice, path-dependency, legitimacy, human right to health

Abstract


In his book, The Idea of Justice, Amartya Sen presents a criticism of what he calls «the transcendental theory of justice». There he argues that transcendental theories play an irrelevant role in identifying the right choices to fight injustice in a non-ideal world. In this work we explore a possible relationship of compatibility between the comparative approach sponsored by Sen and a minimal framework of global justice that would play a role in constraining the comparative process in order to avoid path-dependent choices that bring about institutional scenarios that are incompatible with the conceptions of justice that generated the original evaluations.

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Published

2010-12-30

How to Cite

Pogge, T., & Álvarez, D. (2010). Global Justice: Two approaches. Isegoría, (43), 573–588. https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2010.i43.708

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Notes and Discussions