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The history of international relations is characterized by
widespread injustice. What implications does this have for those
living in the present? Many writers have dismissed the moral
urgency of rectificatory justice in a domestic context, as a result
of their forward-looking accounts of distributive justice.
Rectifying International Injustice argues that historical
international injustice raises a series of distinct theoretical
problems, as a result of the popularity of backward-looking
accounts of distributive justice in an international context. It
lays out three morally relevant forms of connection with the past,
based in ideas of benefit, entitlement and responsibility. Those
living in the present may have obligations to pay compensation to
those in other states insofar as they are benefiting, and others
are suffering, as a result of the effects of historic injustice.
They may be in possession of property which does not rightly belong
to them, but to which others have inherited entitlements. Finally,
they may be members of political communities which bear collective
responsibility for an ongoing failure to rectify historic
injustice. Rectifying International Injustice considers each of
these three linkages with the past in detail. It examines the
complicated relationship between rectificatory justice and
distributive justice, and argues that many of those who resist
cosmopolitan demands for the global redistribution of resources
have failed to appreciate the extent to which past wrongdoing
undermines the legitimacy of contemporary resource holdings.
Political Philosophy, Here and Now honours David Miller's
remarkable contribution to political philosophy. Over the last
fifty years, Miller has published an extraordinary range of work
that has shaped the discipline in many different areas, including
social justice, democracy, citizenship, nationality, global
justice, and the history of political thought. His work is
characterised by its commitment to a kind of theorising that makes
sense to the people who have to put its principles into practice.
This entails paying close attention to empirical evidence from the
social sciences, but also results in a willingness to take the
everyday beliefs of lay people seriously in its theorising. The aim
is the construction of a political philosophy that can be radically
reformative, but that nonetheless is justifiable and realisable
here and now. This book brings together a range of papers from
leading political theorists concerning many different aspects of
Miller's work, on topics including national responsibility and
global justice, self-determination, collective responsibility,
human rights, immigration, market socialism, national identity,
citizenship, multiculturalism, public goods, the political thought
of David Hume, and the methodology of political philosophy. It
includes a chapter by Miller himself, which develops his own
distinctive approach to political theorising. The volume concludes
with a complete bibliography of David Miller's published work.
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