The political responsibility to participate in global civil society
Rawls famously argued that ‘justice is the first virtue of social institutions’; ever since we tend to think of the state institutions as the primary agent of justice. However, I argue that we are all agents of justice, and that our responsibility for justice entails participating in global civil s...
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| description | Rawls famously argued that ‘justice is the first virtue of social institutions’; ever since we tend to think of the state institutions as the primary agent of justice. However, I argue that we are all agents of justice, and that our responsibility for justice entails participating in global civil society. This is a development of Iris Marion Young’s argument in her final book Responsibility for Justice. To show this I compare Rawls and Young, who both take a structuralist view of justice. I sketch their different understandings of structure, individuals’ responsibilities for justice (dualism), and global justice to show why, on the Youngian approach, individuals have a political responsibility to participate in global civil society to undermine global injustice. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:799f6c4d-6063-4653-9cc2-ce9c6e9d05642024-11-22T09:41:37ZThe political responsibility to participate in global civil societyBook sectionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248uuid:799f6c4d-6063-4653-9cc2-ce9c6e9d0564EnglishFrenchSymplectic Elements at OxfordPresses universitaires de Louvain2016McKeown, MMbonda, E-MNgosso, TRawls famously argued that ‘justice is the first virtue of social institutions’; ever since we tend to think of the state institutions as the primary agent of justice. However, I argue that we are all agents of justice, and that our responsibility for justice entails participating in global civil society. This is a development of Iris Marion Young’s argument in her final book Responsibility for Justice. To show this I compare Rawls and Young, who both take a structuralist view of justice. I sketch their different understandings of structure, individuals’ responsibilities for justice (dualism), and global justice to show why, on the Youngian approach, individuals have a political responsibility to participate in global civil society to undermine global injustice. |
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