Boundaries and Justice
Diverse Ethical Perspectives
Published on 21. October 2001
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-691-08799-3 (ISBN)
Description
Despite the supreme political and economic significance of boundaries - and ongoing challenges to existing national boundaries - scant attention has been paid to their ethics. This volume explores how diverse ethical traditions understand the political and property rights reflected in territorial and jurisdictional boundaries. It is the first book to bring together thinkers from a range of traditions, both religious and secular, to discuss the ethics of boundaries. Each contributor represents a tradition's views on questions surrounding the use of boundaries to delimit property and political rights. What does it mean to own something? What resources should not be privately owned? What justifies the erection of political boundaries between one people and another? How 'hard' should such boundaries be? What rights extend to minorities within a state? Should territorial boundaries coincide with social ones? Does national autonomy have an ethical basis, or is it an aspect of modern power politics? Should we aim for a more inclusive community than that afforded by modern nation-states?
Cross-chapter dialogue and a substantive conclusion draw out similarities and differences among the traditions represented, traditions that include Christianity, classical liberalism. Confucianism, international law, Islam, Judaism, liberal egalitarianism, and natural law.
Cross-chapter dialogue and a substantive conclusion draw out similarities and differences among the traditions represented, traditions that include Christianity, classical liberalism. Confucianism, international law, Islam, Judaism, liberal egalitarianism, and natural law.
Reviews / Votes
[This] collection of essays is very rich in ideas and in implications. It explores a vital set of questions and ethical concepts. The book leaves me wanting more such volumes that explore the boundaries of justice from varied ethical perspectives. -- Dana W. Wilbanks Journal of the American Academy of ReligionMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-08799-3 (9780691087993)
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Persons
David Miller is Official Fellow in Social and Political Theory at Nuffield College, Oxford University. He is the author of On Nationality. Principles of Social Justice, and Citizenship and National Identity. Sohail H. Hashmi is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke College and the editor of State Sovereignty.
Content
Acknowledgments vii Contributors ix Introduction by David Miller and Sohail H. Hashmi 3 Chapter One: Christian Attitudes toward Boundaries: Metaphysical and Geographical by Richard B. Miller 15 Chapter Two: The Value of Limited Loyalty: Christianity, the Nation, and Territorial Boundaries by Nigel Biggar 38 Chapter Three: Toward a Liberal Theory of National Boundaries by Loren Lomasky 55 Chapter Four: Hard Borders, Compensation, and Classical Liberalism by Hillel Steiner 79 Chapter Five: Territorial Boundaries and Confucianism by Joseph Chan 89 Chapter Six: Boundaries of the Body and Body Politic in Early Confucian Thought by Michael Nylan 112 Chapter Seven: International Law, Boundaries, and Imagination by Robert McCorquodale 136 Chapter Eight: Territorial Sovereignty: Command, Title, and the Expanding Claims of the Commons by Raul C. Pangalangan 164 Chapter Nine: Islamic Perspectives on Territorial Boundaries and Autonomy by M. Raquibuz Zaman 183 Chapter Ten: Religion and the Maintenance of Boundaries: An Islamic View by Sulayman Nyang 203 Chapter Eleven: Land and People: One Jewish Perspective by David Novak 213 Chapter Twelve: Contested Boundaries: Judaic Visions of a Shared World by Noam J. Zohar 237 Chapter Thirteen: Territorial Boundaries: A Liberal Egalitarian Perspective by Will Kymlicka 249 Chapter Fourteen: Group Boundaries, Individual Barriers by Russell Hardin 276 Chapter Fifteen: Boundaries, Ownership, and Autonomy: A Natural Law Perspective by Joseph Boyle 296 Chapter Sixteen: In Defense of Reasonable Lines: Natural Law from a Natural Rights Perspective by Jeremy Rabkin 317 Chapter Seventeen: The Ethics of Boundaries: A Question of Partial Commitments by Daniel Philpott 335 Index 361