Abstracts
Abstract
In this article, I discuss the analysis of the feasibility of global justice developed by Pablo Gilabert in his recent book From Global Poverty to Global Equality: A Philosophical Exploration. Gilabert makes many valuable contributions to this topic and I agree with most of his analysis. However, I identify a distinction between strategic justification and moral justification that Gilabert neglects. I show how this distinction is useful in addressing objections to the feasibility of global justice. I also claim that Gilabert makes some problematic assumptions concerning the way in which global justice is morally demanding.
Résumé
Dans cet article, je traite de l’analyse de la faisabilité de la justice mondiale élaborée par Pablo Gilabert dans son récent ouvrage, From Global Poverty to Global Equality: A Philosophical Exploration. Les contributions de Gilabert sur cette question sont nombreuses et précieuses, et je suis en grande partie d’accord avec son analyse. J’identifie cependant une distinction, que Gilabert néglige, entre la justification stratégique et la justification morale. Je montre en quoi cette distinction est utile dans le traitement des objections relatives à la faisabilité de la justice mondiale. Je soutiens également que certaines des hypothèses émises par Gilabert quant à l’exigence morale propre à la justice mondiale sont problématiques.
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