Critical remarks on Simon Caney's humanity- centered approach to global justice

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  • Julian Culp Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

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https://doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2016v15n1p50

Resumo

The practice-independent approach to theorizing justice (PIA) holds that the social practices to which a particular conception of justice is meant to apply are of no importance for the justification of such a conception. In this paper I argue that this approach to theorizing justice is incompatible with the method of reflective equilibrium (MRE) because the MRE is antithetical to a clean separation between issues of justification and application. In particular I will be maintaining that this incompatibility renders Simon Caney’s cosmopolitan theory of global justice inconsistent, because Caney claims to endorse both a humanity-centered PIA and the MRE.

Biografia do Autor

Julian Culp, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Research Associate in the Leibniz Research Group Transnational Justice at the University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.

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