Critical remarks on Simon Caney's humanity- centered approach to global justice

The practice-independent approach to theorizing justice (PIA) holds that the social practices to which a particular conception of justice is meant to apply are of no importance for the justification of such a conception. In this paper I argue that this approach to theorizing justice is incompatible...

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Main Author: Julian Culp
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Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2016-09-01
Series:Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ethic/article/view/43126
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description The practice-independent approach to theorizing justice (PIA) holds that the social practices to which a particular conception of justice is meant to apply are of no importance for the justification of such a conception. In this paper I argue that this approach to theorizing justice is incompatible with the method of reflective equilibrium (MRE) because the MRE is antithetical to a clean separation between issues of justification and application. In particular I will be maintaining that this incompatibility renders Simon Caney’s cosmopolitan theory of global justice inconsistent, because Caney claims to endorse both a humanity-centered PIA and the MRE.
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spelling doaj-art-10941ec69b174e509f82b6363ba5ca412025-08-20T03:41:56ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaEthic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy1677-29542016-09-0115110.5007/1677-2954.2016v15n1p5025961Critical remarks on Simon Caney's humanity- centered approach to global justiceJulian Culp0Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main The practice-independent approach to theorizing justice (PIA) holds that the social practices to which a particular conception of justice is meant to apply are of no importance for the justification of such a conception. In this paper I argue that this approach to theorizing justice is incompatible with the method of reflective equilibrium (MRE) because the MRE is antithetical to a clean separation between issues of justification and application. In particular I will be maintaining that this incompatibility renders Simon Caney’s cosmopolitan theory of global justice inconsistent, because Caney claims to endorse both a humanity-centered PIA and the MRE. https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ethic/article/view/43126
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Critical remarks on Simon Caney's humanity- centered approach to global justice
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title Critical remarks on Simon Caney's humanity- centered approach to global justice
title_full Critical remarks on Simon Caney's humanity- centered approach to global justice
title_fullStr Critical remarks on Simon Caney's humanity- centered approach to global justice
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