New Directions in Global Justice: An Agent-Principal Approach

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  • Cristian Dimitriu CONICET

Abstract

There is a puzzling fact about recent discussions on global justice. The debate, as of today, is fairly sophisticated and advanced, and all kinds of views have been defen­ded. However, this debate has often ignored some of the most flagrant injustices of the real world, or is useless to asses them. Consider the following example: currently, the international financial system is set up in such a way that it forces countries (usually poor ones) to repay their sovereign debts, even if these debts are not morally binding for them. Thus, entire generations end up burdened with debts that were fraudulently incurred in their name. Despite the fact that this problem is massive, global justice scholars have either neglected it, or have not addressed it adequately. In this paper, I attempt to solve the puzzle. That is, I try to explain why there is such a gap in the global justice literature. Also, I propose a new approach to global justice which, in my view, fills this gap.

Author Biography

Cristian Dimitriu, CONICET

Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) (Argentina)

cdimitriu@hotmail.com

Consejo Nacional de Investigacio­nes Científicas y Técnicas (CONI­CET) (Argentina)

Ph.D. (Doctor) en Filosofía por la Universidad de Toronto (Canadá). Actualmente se desempeña como Investigador por el Consejo Nacio­nal de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) (Argentina), con sede en IIF-SADAF (Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas - So­ciedad Argentina de Análisis Filo­sóficos). Profesor adjunto interino en la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Sus áreas de especialización son Filosofía Política, Justicia Glo­bal y Filosofía del Derecho.

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2018-12-03

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No. 30 (2019): January-june

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