Baylis,, Smith and

d Owens: T
The Globa
alization of World Pol itics 6e
Re
evision guiide
Chapter
C
13
3: Internatiional ethic
cs

Glo
obalization
n lends sup
pport to cossmopolitan
n ethical theory.

Co
osmopolitan
nism advances the id
dea of a un
niversal hu
uman comm
munity in which
w
eve
erybody is treated as
s equal.

osmopolita
an thinker is Immanue
el Kant.
The most sysstematic co

Co
osmopolitan
nism has both
b
moral and politic
cal meanin
ng.

osmopolitan
nism does not requirre a world state.
s
Co

Co
osmopolitan
ns emphas
size both p
positive and
d negative duties, ussually expressed in
terrms of resp
ponsibilities
s not to ha rm and res
sponsibilitie
es to proviide humanitarian
asssistance orr hospitality.

Re
ealism and pluralism are the two
o most com
mmon obje
ections to ccosmopolittan ethics
and
d the posssibility of moral univerrsalism.

Re
ealists argu
ue that nec
cessity dem
mands a statist ethics
s, restrictinng moral ob
bligations
to tthe nation--state.

Plu
uralism is an
a ethics of
o coexiste
ence based
d on soverreignty.

Co
osmopolitan
ns emphas
size extenssive positiv
ve (i.e. justtice and aidd) and neg
gative (i.e.
non-harming) duties ac
cross borde
ers.

Anti-cosmopo
olitans argue that we
e have limitted, largely
y negative,, duties to those
outtside our own
o
community.

ost thinkerss agree witth Rawls th

hat we hav
ve at least natural duuties of: mutual aid,
Mo
to o
offer assistance in tim
mes of nee
ed, such as
s temporarry famine rrelief or
humanitarian
n emergenc
cy aid; and
d the negattive duty not to harm or inflict
unnecessaryy suffering.

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alization of World Pol itics 6e
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evision guiide

There are thrree components of th

he just warr tradition: jus
j ad bellu
lum, jus in bello, and
juss post bellu
um.

The just war tradition co

ontains ele
ements of cosmopolit
c
tanism andd
com
mmunitaria
anism.

ustice are d
dominated
d by utilitariian and Raawlsian the
eories.
Disscussions of global ju

elf a moral problem.

It iss not alwayys agreed that inequ ality is itse

Co
osmopolitan
ns argue th
hat there iss a responsibility of the rich to hhelp the po
oor,
ste
emming fro
om positive
e and nega
ative duties
s.

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