Critical notice of John Rawls, The Law of Peoples: With the ‘Idea of Public Reason Revisited’
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 31, no. 1, 2001, pp. 113–132
Abstract
This review essay focuses on Rawls’s rejection of the ideal of global distributive justice in his international theory. Specifically, it argues that a truly liberal conception of international justice must adopts a cosmopolitan approach to the problem global economic and social inequalities.
