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Human Rights And Global Justice: A Normative Critique Of Some Rawlsian Approaches., Ndidi Victoria Nwaneri
Human Rights And Global Justice: A Normative Critique Of Some Rawlsian Approaches., Ndidi Victoria Nwaneri
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND GLOBAL JUSTICE: A NORMATIVE CRITIQUE OF
SOME RAWLSIAN APPROACHES
I hold the position that all forms of social injustice (including global injustice), result
from the intentions and actions of persons. Therefore, irrespective of intervening layers of
causation, such injustice must be understood as intersubjective violations. In this project, I
attempt to develop a global justice theory that takes the level of analysis beyond global
institutions and practices to the level of intersubjective relations between moral agents. My
project opens up the following question: How would a global justice theory look if we took the
expression of human …