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The political responsibility to participate in global civil society
- Abstract:
- Rawls famously argued that ‘justice is the first virtue of social institutions’; ever since we tend to think of the state institutions as the primary agent of justice. However, I argue that we are all agents of justice, and that our responsibility for justice entails participating in global civil society. This is a development of Iris Marion Young’s argument in her final book Responsibility for Justice. To show this I compare Rawls and Young, who both take a structuralist view of justice. I sketch their different understandings of structure, individuals’ responsibilities for justice (dualism), and global justice to show why, on the Youngian approach, individuals have a political responsibility to participate in global civil society to undermine global injustice.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Presses universitaires de Louvain
- Host title:
- Théories de la justice: Justice globale, agents de la justice et justice de genre
- Pages:
- 99-108
- Series:
- Seminaires doctoraux de Yaounde, Yaounde PhD Seminar 2012-2014
- Place of publication:
- Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
- Publication date:
- 2016-09-07
- Edition:
- 1
- ISBN:
- 9782875584786
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English, French
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from Presses universitaires de Louvain.
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