Global Justice

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2008:

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This subject begins with an analysis of recent attempts to justify the claim that duties of justice apply to the world as a whole. This cosmopolitan point of view is contrasted with nationalist positions which seek to limit duties of distributive justice to obligations shared by national compatriots. In the second half of the course we use major theories of global justice to engage with several pressing international problems including: immigration, armed intervention, international development and national self-determination.

Reading material will be made available by the Centre.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• have developed an understanding of the fundamentals of philosophical argumentation and theory;
• present theories and arguments concisely and critically;
• see ways in which an argument or explanation could be improved.