The Cosmopolitan Strikes Back: A Critical Discussion of Miller on Nationality and Global Equality

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Abstract

According to David Miller, we have stronger obligations towards our co-nationals than we have towards non-nationals. While a principle of equality governs our obligations of justice within the nation-state, our obligations towards non-nationals are governed by a weaker principle of sufficiency. In this paper, I critically assess Miller's objection to a traditional argument for global egalitarianism, according to which nationalist and other deviations from equality rely on factors that are arbitrary from a moral point of view. Then I critically discuss Miller's claim that there is no culturally neutral currency with respect to which we may reasonably claim that people should be equally well offon a global scale. Furthermore, I critically discuss Miller's claim that cosmopolitanism undermines national responsibility. And finally, I turn to Miller's own sufficientarian account of global justice and argue that it exhibits too little concern for the plight of the globally worse off.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftEthics & Global Politics
Vol/bind4
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)147-163
Antal sider17
ISSN1654-4951
StatusUdgivet - 2011

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