Global JusticeISBN: 978-0-7456-3065-6
Hardcover
192 pages
May 2006, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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"Like strong cosmopolitans, Mandle endorses a universalistic
conception of human rights. Against them, he defends the widely
assumed moralsignificance of national borders - appealing not to
common language, culture, history, or sentiments, but to shared
citizenship in a state. This is a clear and promising attempt to
explain and develop some deeply held and widely shared intuitions
about justice."
Thomas Pogge, Professorial Research Fellow, Centre for
Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, The Australian National
University
"A compelling argument for an internationalist position that
recognizes the independence of nations and the fundamental
significance of social and political relations, yet which imposes a
vigorous duty to assist disadvantaged
peoples to enable all to exercise a broad range of human rights.
Mandle sympathetically responds to cosmopolitans’ concerns
without surrendering the field to cosmopolitan critics of the
priority of social and political justice."
Samuel Freeman, Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Pennsylvania