In defense of the duty to assist: a response to critics on the viability of a Rawlsian approach to climate change

Autor:	Sarah Kenehan
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Global warming Climate change Test (assessment) Philosophy Resource (project management) Law International justice Relevance (law) Sociology Duty media_common Law and economics
Zdroj:	Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 18:308-327
ISSN:	1743-8772 1369-8230
Popis:	One test of the practical relevance of any theory of international justice will be to apply it to the case of global climate change. Several thinkers have already dismissed John Rawls’s Law of Peoples as a possible candidate for helping to manage this problem, arguing, among other things, that it demands too little, too late. This paper revisits and defends the Rawlsian framework as a viable approach to managing climate change. In particular, it argues that the duty to assist (the eighth principle of the Law of Peoples) may actually be an invaluable resource for dealing with the now inevitable consequences of global climate change.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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