Global justice, the Glossary

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1. 111 relations: A Theory of Justice, Alter-globalization, Ambrose, Anarchism, Anarchy (international relations), Andrew Hurrell, Anti-globalization movement, Augustine of Hippo, Caste, Chandran Kukathas, Charles Beitz, Charles Yeo, Citizenship, Colonialism, Consequentialism, Cosmopolitanism, Culture, David Miller (philosopher), David Miller (political theorist), Democratic globalization, Diogenes, Distribution of wealth, Domestic policy, Early modern period, Economic liberalism, Egalitarianism, European Social Forum, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, Federalism, Gender, Gillian Brock, Global citizenship, Global civics, Global Justice (organization), Global justice movement, Global Justice Now, Global studies, Globalization, Hans Köchler, Hedley Bull, Henrik Syse, Human rights defender, Humanitarian aid, Immanuel Kant, Imperialism, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International Criminal Court, International judicial institution, International law, International organization, ... Expand index (61 more) »

2. Global ethics

A Theory of Justice

A Theory of Justice is a 1971 work of political philosophy and ethics by the philosopher John Rawls (1921–2002) in which the author attempts to provide a moral theory alternative to utilitarianism and that addresses the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society). Global justice and a Theory of Justice are justice.

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Alter-globalization

Alter-globalization (also known as alter-globo, alternative globalization or alter-mundialization—from the French alter-mondialisation) is a social movement whose proponents support global cooperation and interaction, but oppose what they describe as the negative effects of economic globalization, considering it to often work to the detriment of, or to not adequately promote, human values such as environmental and climate protection, economic justice, labor protection, protection of indigenous cultures, peace and civil liberties. Global justice and alter-globalization are world government.

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Ambrose

Ambrose of Milan (Aurelius Ambrosius; 4 April 397), venerated as Saint Ambrose, was a theologian and statesman who served as Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397.

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Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.

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Anarchy (international relations)

In international relations theory, the concept of anarchy is the idea that the world lacks any supreme authority or sovereignty.

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Andrew Hurrell

Andrew James Hurrell, FBA (born 2 February 1955) is a leading British scholar of international relations.

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Anti-globalization movement

The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalization movement, is a social movement critical of economic globalization.

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Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.

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Caste

A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system.

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Chandran Kukathas

Chandran Kukathas (born 12 September 1957) is a Malaysian-born Australian political theorist and the author of several books.

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Charles Beitz

Charles R. Beitz (born 1949) is an American political theorist.

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Charles Yeo

Charles Yeo Yao Hui is a Singaporean lawyer and former politician who served as the chairman of the opposition Reform Party between 2020 and 2022.

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Citizenship

Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.

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Consequentialism

In moral philosophy, consequentialism is a class of normative, teleological ethical theories that holds that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for judgement about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct.

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Cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all human beings are members of a single community. Global justice and Cosmopolitanism are world government.

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Culture

Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.

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David Miller (philosopher)

David William Miller (born 19 August 1942, Watford) is an English philosopher and prominent exponent of critical rationalism.

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David Miller (political theorist)

David Leslie Miller (born 8 March 1946) is an English political theorist.

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Democratic globalization

Democratic globalization is a social movement towards an institutional system of global democracy. Global justice and Democratic globalization are world government.

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Diogenes

Diogenes (Diogénēs), also known as Diogenes the Cynic (Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός) or Diogenes of Sinope, was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynicism.

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Distribution of wealth

The distribution of wealth is a comparison of the wealth of various members or groups in a society.

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Domestic policy

Domestic policy, also known as internal policy, is a type of public policy overseeing administrative decisions that are directly related to all issues and activity within a state's borders.

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Early modern period

The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity.

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Economic liberalism

Economic liberalism is a political and economic ideology that supports a market economy based on individualism and private property in the means of production.

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Egalitarianism

Egalitarianism, or equalitarianism, is a school of thought within political philosophy that builds on the concept of social equality, prioritizing it for all people. Global justice and Egalitarianism are social justice.

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The European Social Forum (ESF) was a recurring conference held by members of the alter-globalization movement (also known as the Global Justice Movement).

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Famine, Affluence, and Morality

"Famine, Affluence, and Morality" is an essay written by Peter Singer in 1971 and published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1972.

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Federalism

Federalism is a mode of government that combines a general government (the central or federal government) with regional governments (provincial, state, cantonal, territorial, or other sub-unit governments) in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two.

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Gender

Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity.

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Gillian Brock

Gillian Greenwall Brock is a New Zealand philosophy and ethics academic.

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Global citizenship

Global citizenship is a form of transnationality, specifically the idea that one's identity transcends geography or political borders and that responsibilities or rights are derived from membership in a broader global class of "humanity".

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Global civics

Global civics proposes to understand civics in a global sense as a social contract among all world citizens in an age of interdependence and interaction.

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Global Justice (organization)

Global Justice is a US-based non-governmental organization, founded in 2001 at Harvard University by undergraduate and graduate students.

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Global justice movement

The global justice movement is a network of globalized social movements demanding global justice by opposing what is often known as the “corporate globalization” and promoting equal distribution of economic resources. Global justice and global justice movement are justice and social justice.

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Global Justice Now

Global Justice Now, formerly known as the World Development Movement (WDM), is a membership organisation based in the United Kingdom which campaigns on issues of global justice and development in the Global South.

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Global studies

Global studies (GS) or global affaires (GA) is the interdisciplinary study of global macro-processes.

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Globalization

Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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Hans Köchler

Hans Köchler (born 18 October 1948) is a retired professor of philosophy at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and president of the International Progress Organization, a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the United Nations.

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Hedley Bull

Hedley Norman Bull (10 June 1932 – 18 May 1985) was Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford until his death from cancer in 1985.

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Henrik Syse

Henrik Syse (born 19 April 1966) is a Norwegian philosopher, author, and lecturer.

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Human rights defender

A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights.

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Humanitarian aid

Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance, usually in the short-term, to people in need.

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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.

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Imperialism

Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism).

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations.

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International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands.

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International judicial institution

International judicial institutions can be divided into courts, arbitral tribunals and quasi-judicial institutions.

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International law

International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.

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International organization

An international organization, also known as an intergovernmental organization or an international institution, is an organization that is established by a treaty or other type of instrument governed by international law and possesses its own legal personality, such as the United Nations, the World Health Organization, International Union for Conservation of Nature, and NATO.

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International relations

International relations (IR) are the interactions among sovereign states.

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Internationalism (politics)

Internationalism is a political principle that advocates greater political or economic cooperation among states and nations. Global justice and Internationalism (politics) are world government.

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Interventionism (politics)

Interventionism, in international politics, is the interference of a state or group of states into the domestic affairs of another state for the purposes of coercing that state to do something or refrain from doing something.

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Iris Marion Young

Iris Marion Young (2 January 1949 – 1 August 2006) was an American political theorist and socialist feminist who focused on the nature of justice and social difference.

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John Rawls

John Bordley Rawls (February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American moral, legal and political philosopher in the modern liberal tradition.

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Just war theory

The just war theory (bellum iustum) is a doctrine, also referred to as a tradition, of military ethics that aims to ensure that a war is morally justifiable through a series of criteria, all of which must be met for a war to be considered just.

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Justice

Justice, in its broadest sense, is the concept that individuals are to be treated in a manner that is equitable and fair. Global justice and Justice are concepts in political philosophy.

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Kai Nielsen (philosopher)

Kai Nielsen (May 15, 1926 – April 7, 2021) was an American professor, latterly emeritus, of philosophy at the University of Calgary.

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Khmer Rouge Tribunal

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC; Chambres extraordinaires au sein des tribunaux cambodgiens (CETC); អង្គជំនុំជម្រះវិសាមញ្ញក្នុងតុលាការកម្ពុជា), commonly known as the Cambodia Tribunal or Khmer Rouge Tribunal (សាលាក្ដីខ្មែរក្រហម), was a court established to try the senior leaders and the most responsible members of the Khmer Rouge for alleged violations of international law and serious crimes perpetrated during the Cambodian genocide.

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League of Nations

The League of Nations (LN or LoN; Société des Nations, SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. Global justice and League of Nations are world government.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Michael Walzer

Michael Laban Walzer (born March 3, 1935) is an American political theorist and public intellectual.

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Multinational corporation

A multinational corporation (MNC; also called a multinational enterprise (MNE), transnational enterprise (TNE), transnational corporation (TNC), international corporation, or stateless corporation,with subtle but contrasting senses) is a corporate organization that owns and controls the production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.

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Nation

A nation is a large type of social organization where a collective identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, territory or society.

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Nation state

A nation-state is a political unit where the state, a centralized political organization ruling over a population within a territory, and the nation, a community based on a common identity, are congruent.

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Nationality

Nationality is the legal status of belonging to a particular nation, defined as a group of people organized in one country, under one legal jurisdiction, or as a group of people who are united on the basis of culture.

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Natural law

Natural law (ius naturale, lex naturalis) is a system of law based on a close observation of natural order and human nature, from which values, thought by natural law's proponents to be intrinsic to human nature, can be deduced and applied independently of positive law (the express enacted laws of a state or society). Global justice and natural law are concepts in political philosophy.

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Negative and positive rights

Negative and positive rights are rights that oblige either inaction (negative rights) or action (positive rights).

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Non-governmental organization

A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.

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Original position

The original position (OP), often referred to as the veil of ignorance, is a thought experiment used for reasoning about the principles that should structure a society based on mutual dependence. Global justice and original position are concepts in political philosophy and justice.

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Per Fugelli

Per Fugelli (7 December 1943 – 13 September 2017) was a Norwegian physician and professor of General Practice at the University of Bergen from 1984 to 1992, and social medicine at the University of Oslo from 1992 until his death in 2017.

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Peter Singer

Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W.

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Plato

Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.

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Political ethics

Political ethics (also known as political morality or public ethics) is the practice of making moral judgments about political action and political agents.

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Political philosophy

Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them.

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Political system

In political science, a political system means the type of political organization that can be recognized, observed or otherwise declared by a state.

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Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.

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Quality of life

Quality of life (QOL) is defined by the World Health Organization as "an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns".

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Race (human categorization)

Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society.

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Redistribution of income and wealth

Redistribution of income and wealth is the transfer of income and wealth (including physical property) from some individuals to others through a social mechanism such as taxation, welfare, public services, land reform, monetary policies, confiscation, divorce or tort law.

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Religion

Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.

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Rogue state

"Rogue state" (or sometimes "outlaw state") is a term applied by some international theorists to states that they consider threatening to the world's peace.

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Rule according to higher law

The rule according to a higher law is a statement which expresses that no law may be enforced by the government unless it conforms with certain universal principles (written or unwritten) of fairness, morality, and justice.

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Rule of law

The rule of law is a political ideal that all citizens and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws, including lawmakers and leaders. Global justice and rule of law are concepts in political philosophy.

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Sentience

Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations.

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Simon Caney

Simon Caney (born 1966) is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Warwick and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

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In moral and political philosophy, the social contract is an idea, theory or model that usually, although not always, concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual. Global justice and social contract are concepts in political philosophy.

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Social justice is justice in relation to the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society where individuals' rights are recognized and protected. Global justice and Social justice are concepts in political philosophy and justice.

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Sovereign state

A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.

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Sovereignty

Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority.

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Statelessness

In international law, a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law".

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Terry Nardin

Terry W. Nardin (born January 19, 1942) is Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Common Curriculum at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.

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The Law of Peoples

The Law of Peoples is American philosopher John Rawls' work on international relations.

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Theodicy

In the philosophy of religion, a theodicy (meaning 'vindication of God', from Ancient Greek θεός theos, "god" and δίκη dikē, "justice") is an argument that attempts to resolve the problem of evil that arises when all power and all goodness are simultaneously ascribed to God.

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Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel (born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher.

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Thomas Pogge

Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge (born 13 August 1953) is a German philosopher and is the Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, United States.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. Global justice and United Nations are world government.

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings. Global justice and Universal Declaration of Human Rights are global ethics.

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Utilitarianism

In ethical philosophy, utilitarianism is a family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the affected individuals.

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Utopia

A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members.

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Vox Clamantis

Vox Clamantis ("the voice of one crying out") is a Latin poem of 10,265 lines in elegiac couplets by John Gower (1330 – October 1408).

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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (born 1955) is an American philosopher specializing in ethics, epistemology, neuroethics, the philosophy of law, and the philosophy of cognitive science.

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Welfare state

A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life.

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William Godwin

William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist.

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World Bank

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.

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World economy

The world economy or global economy is the economy of all humans in the world, referring to the global economic system, which includes all economic activities conducted both within and between nations, including production, consumption, economic management, work in general, financial transactions and trade of goods and services.

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World government

World government is the concept of a single political authority with jurisdiction over all of Earth and humanity.

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The World Social Forum (WSF, Fórum Social Mundial) is an annual meeting of civil society organizations, first held in Brazil, which offers a self-conscious effort to develop an alternative future through the championing of counter-hegemonic globalization.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Xenocentrism

Xenocentrism is the preference for the cultural practices of other cultures and societies, such as how they live and what they eat, rather than of one's own social way of life.

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Yuli Tamir

Yael "Yuli" Tamir (יולי תמיר; born 26 February 1954) is an Israeli academic and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party between 2003 and 2010, and as Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Education, as well as the deputy speaker of the Knesset and a member of the Finance committee, the Education committee and the Security and Foreign Affairs committee.

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See also

Global ethics

• Donna Dickenson
• Ecological modernization
• Environmental ethics
• Flame of Peace
• Geneva Consensus Declaration
• Global justice
• Global surveillance and journalism
• Hans Küng
• Institute for Global Ethics
• Justice tourism
• Manifesto for a Global Economic Ethic
• Philosophy of human rights
• Rushworth Kidder
• Terezin Declaration
• Towards a Global Ethic: An Initial Declaration
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights
• Van Rensselaer Potter
• World Social Capital Monitor
• World Values Survey

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_justice

Also known as Global ethics, Global injustice.

, International relations, Internationalism (politics), Interventionism (politics), Iris Marion Young, John Rawls, Just war theory, Justice, Kai Nielsen (philosopher), Khmer Rouge Tribunal, League of Nations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michael Walzer, Multinational corporation, Nation, Nation state, Nationality, Natural law, Negative and positive rights, Non-governmental organization, Original position, Per Fugelli, Peter Singer, Plato, Political ethics, Political philosophy, Political system, Princeton University Press, Quality of life, Race (human categorization), Redistribution of income and wealth, Religion, Rogue state, Rule according to higher law, Rule of law, Sentience, Simon Caney, Social contract, Social justice, Sovereign state, Sovereignty, Statelessness, Terry Nardin, The Law of Peoples, Theodicy, Thomas Nagel, Thomas Pogge, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Utilitarianism, Utopia, Vox Clamantis, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Welfare state, William Godwin, World Bank, World economy, World government, World Social Forum, World War I, Xenocentrism, Yuli Tamir.