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dc.contributor.advisor | Waluchow, Wil | - |
dc.contributor.author | Sanchez Perez, Jorge | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-01T14:56:16Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-10-01T14:56:16Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/26943 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation is the first step in a larger research project aimed at bridging the gap between Western philosophy and Indigenous thought. Here, I identify a methodological approach to the social contract by analyzing the tradition under an historical lens. I highlight that, along with the justificatory capacities of the social contract, comes a great deal of modelling involved in different versions of the social contract. This modelling comes in the form of four pre-contractual elements that different authors model in different ways. I show how different authors choose different structural problems or injustices that such theories want to address, as well as normative commitments that their theories are committed to, a standard of considerability of interests that identifies whose interests matter for those deliberating the terms of the contract, and a contractual device. I then go on to develop a framework for the development of a theory of global justice. I focus on the first three pre-contractual elements. For the sake of a global theory of justice, I identify four circumstances that need to be the focus of our concerns about global justice: Serious existential uncertainty due to climate change and massive animal extinction; the existence of a shared global institutional framework that forces us to think in terms beyond the state; the disproportionate distribution of the planet’s scarce resources; and the pervasive racial, gender and disabled-bodied-targeted inequalities that are characteristic of today’s world. I then move on to identify the “dignity of being” as a non-anthropocentric, core normative commitment that can be used as the basis for a theory of global justice. I conclude by developing a standard of considerability of interests that can adequately incorporate the interests of diverse beings into the social contract deliberations. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Global Justice | en_US |
dc.subject | Environment | en_US |
dc.subject | Race, Gender, and Disabilities | en_US |
dc.subject | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.subject | Colonialism | en_US |
dc.subject | Moral Philosophy | en_US |
dc.subject | Political Philosophy | en_US |
dc.subject | Ethics | en_US |
dc.title | Foundations for a Contractualist Theory of Global Justice | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Humanities | en_US |
dc.description.degreetype | Dissertation | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | en_US |
dc.description.layabstract | This dissertation is the first step in a larger research project aimed at bridging the gap between Western philosophy and Indigenous thought. Here, I identify a useful methodological approach to the social contract by analyzing the tradition under an historical lens. I highlight that, along with the justificatory capacities of the social contract, comes a great deal of modelling involved in different versions of the social contract. This modelling comes in the form of four pre-contractual elements that different authors model in different ways. I show how different authors choose different structural problems or injustices that such theories want to address, as well as normative commitments that their theories are committed to, a standard of considerability of interests that identifies whose interests matter for those deliberating the terms of the contract, and a contractual device. Once that has been established, I am able to provide some foundational elements for establishing a framework for the development of a theory of global justice. I focus on the first three pre-contractual elements. | en_US |
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