Talk:Global justice

Renovation
This article is currently sketchy and tendentious. I plan to revise it. Anyone want to help?

Things which need to be covered (UPDATED: version 2):
 * history of global justice as a philosophical concern
 * central issues:
 * institutions: the role and moral significance of states, the UN, the WTO and World Bank, NGOs, etc.
 * moral universalism
 * distributive justice
 * central positions:
 * 'realism'
 * cultural relativism/particularism/communitarianism (e.g. Walzer)
 * liberal nationalism (e.g. Miller, Tamir)
 * Rawls's 'society of peoples' and criticisms (e.g. Beitz)
 * human-rights based cosmopolitanism (e.g. Pogge)
 * consequentialist cosmopolitanism (e.g. Singer)
 * measures of poverty (inequality of what?):
 * relative inequality of resources
 * basic needs
 * capacities
 * further reading
 * see also:
 * poverty
 * economic inequality
 * moral universalism
 * cultural relativism
 * moral relativism
 * social justice

What else?

--Sam Clark 09:18, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Redirect
Could someone explain why 'global justice' now redirects to 'global justice movement'? They're not the same thing: as my comment above suggests, global justice is an issue in political philosophy.

UPDATE: I take it back - it doesn't redirect any more. I wonder what was going on?

FURTHER UPDATE (25 July): I get it. 'Global_justice' is the global justice page; 'Global_Justice' with a capital J redirects to 'Global Justice Movement'. I'll request deletion.

UPDATE 3 (27 July): capital J now redirects here.

--Sam Clark 10:37, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

New version
New version now live. It's less ambitious than the plan above, in two ways: 1. the 'history' section rapidly turned into a general history of political philosophy, so I dropped it; 2. the 'measures of poverty' section would have duplicated material from the article 'Poverty', so again, I dropped it. --Sam Clark 10:42, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Peer review comments
Please post such comments on the Peer Review page, which is linked at the top. Thank you.--Francesco Franco aka Lacatosias 09:36, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Proposed history and context section
Below is a tentative first go at an extra section in response to comments above. I'm putting it here, rather than straight into the article, because I'm currently unsure about whether it strikes the right balance between concision and focus, on the one hand, and meeting the points made above, on the other. Comments welcome.

The broader philosophical context of the global justice debate, in both its contemporary and historical forms, is the issue of impartiality. Many people are inclined to think that they have more important duties to family-members, friends and compatriots than they do to strangers and foreigners. But are they right to endorse such partiality? Some thinkers, perhaps beginning with the ancient Greek Diogenes of Sinope, have described themselves as citizens of the world. Some, including the utilitarian anarchist William Godwin, have argued that everyone has an impartial duty to do the most good he or she can, without preference for any one human being over another. The question of impartiality seems to have occurred independently to thinkers all over the world: Confucians have argued, for instance, that the benevolent man loves all men, but loves them partially rather than impartially.

The broader political context of the debate is the longstanding conflict between more and less local human institutions: tribes against states, villages against cities, local communities against empires, independent nation-states against the UN. The relative strength of the local against the more global has waxed and waned over recorded history. Since the early modern period, the preeminent political institution in the world has been the state, which is sovereign, territorial, claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of power in its territory, and exists in an international system of other sovereign states. Over the same period, and relatedly, political philosophers' interest in justice focused almost exclusively on domestic issues: how should states treat their subjects, and what do fellow-citizens owe to one another? Justice in relations between states, and between individuals across state borders, was put aside as a secondary issue or left to international relations theorists.

Since the First World War, however, the state system has been transformed by the creation of supranational political and economic institutions: the League of nations, the UN, the World Bank, and others. And, since the 1970s, global justice has increasingly become an important issue in political philosophy. In the contemporary global justice debate, the general issue of partiality is focussed particularly on the moral significance of borders between nations (or states, peoples or cultures) and of shared citizenship. Some thinkers defend and others criticise partiality towards compatriots, in questions of human rights, benevolence, and distributive justice.

Cheers, Sam Clark 15:03, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks great. It's certainly a step in the right direction. Put it up! If anyone has anything else to say about it we'll surely find out. Lucidish { Ben S. Nelson } 16:04, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

GA Pass
Congratulations on a good article. One way of improving is to include more inline citations, for example:

"Some, for instance Kai Nielsen, endorse world government; others, such as Simon Caney, do not."

should be cited with a page number to a suitable reference. It's not critical, but it makes it a lot easier when verifying the article. CloudNine 09:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Movement Front & Center
The philosophy piece here very thoroughly done. The problem is that I think the broader public understands global justice to be a movement as much as a political philosphy (both of which are, admittedly, not household discussions alas). I've taken Sam's suggestion and bulked up the Global Justice movement page and will create a global justice (organization) page, but am thinking the political philosophy page should probably be listed separately too...  So maybe a disimbiguation page? I'm a bit new to how best to do it, but not to Global Justice... and I think it's pretty key to bring the movement at least as front and center as the philosophy... for example, try googling "Global Justice" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthewkavanagh (talk • contribs)


 * Replied at User talk:Matthewkavanagh, relevant bits copied here:
 * ... I certainly agree that the GJ movement is important, and that the GJ page should point people to the movement page (which you've greatly improved, by the way). So far, I've put a disambiguating link at the top of GJ, and think this is enough. The alternative would be: 1. move Global justice to Global justice in political philosophy; and 2. make Global justice a disambiguation page between pol.phil. and movement. But I'm simply not sure that this is necessary with only two pages to disambiguate. Incidentally, I don't think that the google test is quite as unambiguous as you suggest: the top ten results include Thomas Nagel's 'The Problem of Global Justice', and several organisations which don't seem to be linked to the GJM.
 * Sam Clark 12:00, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

POV
Under Nationalism: "...reflected for example in the fact that the benefits of the welfare state are not available to citizens of other countries." The "other" fails to define a contextual "us", and thus assumes the reader lives in a welfare state. Generalised reformulation, anybody? -Ahruman 10:28, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I find the article slightly biased towards the political left. If there is a moral question posed it should be cited, in quotation and context. Also there are many weasle words in the article. I suggest the use of "members of this movement" instead of the over generalized and biased "many people". Audirs8 (talk) 22:07, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

What the hell
"Many people are extremely poor, while others are extremely rich."

What is this crap? What does poverty have to do with Jusitce? I know the rest of the intro gets worse, but I couldn't read logically past this point without slowly getting more and more repulsed. The content in this article needs a complete rewrite ASAP. I don't know the topic well enough, so I leave it to better editors, because if it stands in a week, i'll simply rip out all the unsourced content. - Jimmi Hugh (talk) 21:28, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

What does Poverty have to do with Justice? The distribution of resources is a, if not the, central issue of modern discussions of Justice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.216.246 (talk) 21:14, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

The initial quote is taken out of context. Nagel's article expresses skepticism about global justice; we do not live in a just world, he thinks, because it doesn't make sense to apply the idea of justice to the world as whole. It doesn't follow from this, thought, that we *do* live in an unjust world: which is surely what the use of the quotation in the article suggests. Perhaps I'll change this - but if I don't, someone else should. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.227.184.26 (talk) 01:36, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Address Good Article Concerns
I am trying to update the article to address the "Good Article" concerns. This section can be used to address all of those items. First I have Changed(diff) the section with "But are they right to endorse such partiality" Please use this section if you would like to discuss my edits Jadeslair (talk) 22:55, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) The lead needs to be expanded to better summarize the article. See WP:LEAD for guidelines.
 * 2) Address the POV tag which has been there since November 2008. The article asks readers questions, declares various ideology, and seems to be written as an essay.
 * 3) "Many people believe they have more important duties to family members, friends and compatriots than to strangers and foreigners." Needs source. May be true, but the claim "many people" without a source is using weasel words. It is partially true but I removed it for now Jadeslair (talk) 03:28, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) "But are they right to endorse such partiality?" Questions should not be asked in the text unless it is within a quote or sourced as a fundamental question to the topic.
 * 5) "Three related questions, concerning the scope of justice, justice in the distribution of wealth and other goods, and the institutions responsible for justice, are central to the problem of global justice." Says who? Specify.
 * 6) An explanation is needed beyond the questions in the "Central questions" section.
 * 7) "1.1 billion people — 18% of humanity — live below the World Bank's $2/day poverty line while the Canadian government provides farmers with $3/per cattle for food." Why is Canada singled out here? I'm assuming its mentioned in the source, but if poverty is going to be discussed a worldwide view needs to be focused on. I removed(diff) part that was not in the citation. I will try to expand worldwide views. Jadeslair (talk) 02:30, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * 8) "So the food we consume, is eating better than the people in the 3rd world countries." It's generally not a good idea to use "we", the article should be written as an impartial author. Removed Jadeslair (talk) 02:31, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * 9) "Is this distribution of wealth and other goods just?" Words should not be italicized in the text for emphasis as it could appear to be pushing POV. Done Jadeslair (talk) 02:33, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * 10) "Five main positions — realism, particularism, nationalism, the society of states tradition, and cosmopolitanism (in two forms) — have been taken by contributors to the global justice debate." A source is needed for this.
 * 11) The "Main positions" section is undersourced. A lot of claims are made, especially for the different types of positions, but no citations are provided verifying the views.
 * 12) A lot of the book sources are missing page numbers. Some of the online references are improperly formatted.
 * 13) The dead links should be fixed. The Internet Archive can help.

Nayef Al-Rodhan Comment
His views are not widely cited and I think they should be limited in scope. Request for comment Jadeslair (talk) 02:54, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

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