著者

竹村 和也

出版者

同志社大学

雑誌

同志社法學 (ISSN:03877612)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.51, no.3, pp.93_a-52_a, 1999-09-30

被引用文献数

1

著者

竹村 和也

出版者

日本法哲学会

雑誌

法哲学年報 (ISSN:03872890)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2003, pp.141-148,231, 2004-10-20 (Released:2008-11-17)

参考文献数

15

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Severe and extensive poverty persists while there is great and rising affluence today. The question to be asked is, What should we in the rich states do according to the principles of justice Arguments about justice in an international society are often divided broadly into two approaches. One is a ‘global justice’ approach which applies principles of liberal justice directly to an international society. The other is a particularist approach which restricts the domain of justice to nations or societies. If strict cosmopolitanism, which claims that duties to provide aid applied to all without distinction of nationality is right, then global justice command us to help the poor. Even if it is false, moderate cosmopolitanism is compatible with the global justice. And even if particularist approach is right, particularist approach is compatible with Pogge's theory of global justice. He suggests what he calls an institutional understanding of human right. According to this understanding, having human right means any society ought to be organized that all members have secure access to the objects of their human rights. Responsibility for a person's human rights falls on all and only those who participate with this person in the same social system. He also suggests that present global order imposes severe poverty on the poor who cannot resist this order. According to Pogge this imposition deprives them of the objects of their most basic rights and it is human rights violation. Then what we must do is to diminish the injustice of the global order through institutional reforms. We must stop thinking about world poverty in terms of helping the poor.