International Justice or World Peace? About the Nature of John Rawl’s The Law of Peoples [Spanish]

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Delfín Grueso

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This article tries to explain why it was impossible for Rawls to develop a normative theory of justice for international relations; something that has been demanded by some rawlsian thinkers (Beitz, Pogge, etc.). There were two obstacles for such an enterprise. On one hand, the link established by the philosophical tradition between justice, as a political virtue, and the political unity (polis, national-state, etc.). On the other hand, Rawls’ meta-philosophical decisions, which make his a ‘post-metaphysical’ and ‘strictly political’ theory of justice.

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Delfín Grueso, Universidad del Valle

Doctor en filosofía