Abstract

BARCELOS, Paulo. Rawls, the Law of Peoples and the global justice. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2011, n.31, pp.159-180. ISSN 1645-9199.

This text seeks to introduce the matter of global justice through an assessment of the conception of John Rawls, as advanced in The Law of Peoples. This work places us in the centre of the seemingly paradoxical character that shapes the attitude of the liberal-egalitarian thinking before the consideration of a model of international justice. The rawlsian conception of international justice as been criticized as contradictory regarding his conception applied to the domestic sphere. We will seek not only to understand the axis of Rawls’ theories in a continuity perspective, but also to assess the pertinence of the model exposed in The Law of Peoples through the duality between justice and humanity.

Keywords : John Rawls; global justice; humanity; political philosophy.

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