Social Contract Theory in the Global Context

Mostra el registre complet Registre parcial de l'ítem

• dc.contributor.author Stone, Peterca
• dc.date.accessioned 2016-05-23T15:57:20Z
• dc.date.available 2016-05-23T15:57:20Z
• dc.date.issued 2014ca
• dc.date.modified 2015-09-30T14:03:56Zca
• dc.description.abstract Nicole Hassoun’s Globalization and Global Justice: Shrinking Distance,Expanding Obligations (2012) offers a novel argument for the existence ofpositive rights for the world’s poor, and explores institutional alternativessuitable for the realization of those rights. Hassoun’s argument is contractualist(in the broad sense), and makes the existence of positive rights dependupon the conditions necessary for meaningful consent to the global order. Itthus provides an interesting example of social contract theory in the globalcontext. But Hassoun’s argument relies crucially upon the ambiguous natureof the concept of consent. Drawing broadly upon the social contract theorytradition, Hassoun relies upon actual consent theory, democratic theory, andhypothetical consent theory. Each theoretical approach makes use of its ownconception of consent. Rather than select one of these conceptions overthe others, she makes use of all three. In doing so, she introduces a crucialambiguity into the terms that, on her account, a legitimate global order mustsatisfy. The resolution of this ambiguity will circumscribe any effort, on thepart of Hassoun or others, to specify the terms of any global social contract.ca
• dc.format application/pdfca
• dc.identifier http://www.raco.cat/index.php/LEAP/article/view/297565ca
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/26733
• dc.language.iso engca
• dc.publisher Universitat Pompeu Fabraca
• dc.relation.haspart http://www.raco.cat/index.php/LEAP/article/view/297565/386546ca
• dc.rights.uri The authors transfers a non exclusive rights of distribution, public communication and reproduction of his or her work for publication in Law, Ethics and Philosophy (LEAP) and inclusion in databases in which the journal is indexed.ca
• dc.source.uri Law, Ethics and Philosophy; 2014: Núm. 2; p. 177-189ca
• dc.source.uri Law, Ethics and Philosophy; 2014: Núm. 2; p. 177-189ca
• dc.subject.other Consent, Global Justice, Globalization, Legitimacy, Nicole Hassoun, Positive Rights, Social Contract Theory.ca
• dc.title Social Contract Theory in the Global Contextca
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/articleca
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionca